I was having trouble with another non-EOS Arch install because I decided to install another desktop alongside Plasma. Theres something to be said about not doing this. I was going to Timeshift the distro back, but decided to try LXQt, the EOS version. I already have EOS XFCE, which I thoroughly enj…

Am I reading the RAM usage correctly: It only takes 1.88 GB for the system?

[image] larrys4227: Theres something to be said about not doing this. I was going to Timeshift the distro back, Why not use something like Quickemu to test LXQT. Personaly I am not a fan of Timeshift, specially not just for testing a DE and you facing intervering KDE stuff on the LXQT sessio…

[image] anon26608633: Am I reading the RAM usage correctly: It only takes 1.88 GB for the system? Yes, and thats with Brave, Kitty, Tmux, Btop and Quod Libet all running. On first boot, the RAM is well under 1G

[image] made-lief: Why not use something like Quickemu to test LXQT. Personaly I am not a fan of Timeshift, specially not just for testing a DE and you facing intervering KDE stuff on the LXQT session at the moment. Thanks the Quickemu tip. I’m not a big fan of Plasma and wanted a fresh star…

[image] larrys4227: Terminal transparency I can’t get to work, not sure what terminal your using but with kitty you get transparency. [transparent_kitty]

May need a compositor (picom, xcompmgr, etc) in X11

[image] thefrog: not sure what terminal your using but with kitty you get transparency. I am using kitty as well. Could you show me your kitty config? Mine is here and works correctly in most of my installs : background_opacity 0.7

[image] chroot: May need a compositor (picom, xcompmgr, etc) in X11 Its a brand new install and I haven’t changed any of that. Did I not see that it came with picom by default? Certainly could be mistaken … :slight_smile:

Make sure to go into LXQT Configuration Settings and then go to Autostart and make sure Picom is checked [lxqt_settings-autostart] You’ll also need to create/edit the picom config file (./config/picom.conf) here is a copy of myne #backend vsync=true backend = "xrender"; #backend = "glx"; ######…

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