Switching to LXQt for better performance [HOW TO]

[IPXFong]

I love KDE Plasma it's beautiful and functional but it is fairly resource intensive and tends to bog down on the PineTab2. If you don't need the features, switching to LXQt can make things feel a lot snappier. The installation is pretty straight forward but it doesn't work exactly as the documentation suggests it should. So, let me lay it out for you.

First install LXQt with the command :

Code:

sudo pacman -S lxqt

There are a bunch of packages that contain lxqt, the system will ask if you want to install them all, hit enter to accept. Once the install completes, got to the KDE network configuration. Choose your main Wi-Fi connection and, under the Wi-Fi Security tab, Save this password for all users. (There's probably a better way to do this but this was the first solution that worked so I ran with it ;-D) Now, logout and choose LXQt Desktop from the drop down menu at the bottom of the login screen. LXQt doesn't set the screen rotation correctly for landscape mode so go to the App menu and choose Preferences -> LXQt Settings -> Monitor Settings and under the Advanced tab set the rotation to Right. Hit the Save button and you should be good to go.

Hope this helps!