Lumina (desktop environment)

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Lumina
Original author(s) Ken Moore
Developer(s) iXsystems
Initial releaseAugust 8, 2016;8 years ago (2016-08-08) [1]
Stable release
1.6.2 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 26 December 2021
Repository
Written in C++
Operating system Unix and Unix-like
Type Desktop environment
License BSD-3-Clause
Website lumina-desktop.org   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

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.)

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History

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

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

Lumina 1.0.0 on TrueOS Lumina1.0.0-TrueOS.png
Lumina 1.0.0 on TrueOS

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

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lumina 1.0 release.
  2. ↑ "Release Lumina Desktop 1.6.2 · lumina-desktop_lumina · GitHub".
  3. 1 2 Lumina FAQ.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Watson 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Moore 2015.
  6. ↑ Lumina Desktop Environment homepage.
  7. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 "Lumina Adds Luster to Linux Desktop". 14 February 2017.
  13. ↑ "HyperWiki". wiki.hyperbola.info. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  14. ↑ "Index of \". sources.voidlinux.org. Retrieved 2024-06-12.

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