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Lumina (desktop environment)

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Lumina
Original author(s)Ken Moore
Developer(s)iXsystems
Initial releaseAugust 8, 2016; 7 years ago (2016-08-08)[1]
Stable release
1.6.2[2] Edit this on Wikidata / 26 December 2021
Repository
Written inC++
Operating systemUnix and Unix-like
TypeDesktop environment
LicenseBSD-3-Clause
Websitelumina-desktop.org Edit this on Wikidata

Lumina Desktop Environment, or simply Lumina, is a plugin-based desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It was designed specifically as a system interface for TrueOS and systems derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) in general,[3] but it has been ported to various Linux distributions.[4] (Development of TrueOS ended in 2020.)

History[edit]

Created in 2012 by Ken Moore, Lumina was initially a set of extensions to Fluxbox, a stacking window manager for the X Window System.[5] By late 2013, Moore had developed a graphical overlay for Fluxbox based on Qt4, and had created a utility for "launching applications and opening files".[5] The codebase was integrated into the PC-BSD source repository by early 2014, and a port was added to the FreeBSD Ports collection in April 2014.[5] The source code has since been moved to a separate GitHub repository "under the PC-BSD umbrella" and converted to use Qt5.[5] Development also focused on replacing the Fluxbox core with a Qt-based window manager integrated with the Lumina desktop.[5]

The project avoids use of Linux-based tools or frameworks, such as D-Bus, Polkit, and systemd.[6]

Features[edit]

The desktop and application menus are dynamically configured upon first being launched, as the desktop environment finds installed applications automatically to add to the menu and as a desktop icon.[4] The default panel includes a Start menu, task manager, and system tray, and its location can be customized.[4] Menus may be accessed via the Start menu or by right-clicking the mouse on the desktop background.[4]

Some features are specific to TrueOS, including hardware control of screen brightness (monitor backlight), preventing shutdown of an updating system, and integration with various TrueOS utilities.[3]

Utilities include: Insight, a file manager; File information, which reports a file's format and other details; and Lumina Open, a graphical utility to launch applications based on the selected file or folder.[4]

Version 1.4 included several new utilities.[7] The PDF reader lumina-pdf is based on the poppler library.[8] The Lumina Theme Engine replaced an earlier theme system; it enables a user to configure the desktop appearance and functionality, and ensures all Qt5 applications "present a unified appearance".[7]

Ports[edit]

Lumina 1.0.0 on TrueOS

Lumina has been ported to various BSD operating systems and Linux distributions. These include:

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Lumina 1.0 release.
  2. ^ "Release Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 · lumina-desktop_lumina · GitHub".
  3. ^ a b Lumina FAQ.
  4. ^ a b c d e Watson 2016.
  5. ^ a b c d e Moore 2015.
  6. ^ Lumina Desktop Environment homepage.
  7. ^ a b Nestor 2017.
  8. ^ Larabel 2017.
  9. ^ Freshports.
  10. ^ "lumina-desktop added to repos – antiX Linux". antixlinux.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  11. ^ Arch Linux.
  12. ^ a b c d "Lumina Adds Luster to Linux Desktop". 14 February 2017.
  13. ^ "Index of \". sources.voidlinux.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.

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