Lumina

Short description: Desktop environment for X Window System

Lumina

Lumina 1.6.2 on DragonFly BSD

Developer(s)| iXsystems, Inc.
Written in| C++
Operating system| Unix and Unix-like
Type| Desktop environment
License| BSD-3-Clause
Website| lumina-desktop.org

Lumina Desktop Environment, or simply Lumina, is a plugin-based desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is designed specifically as a system interface for TrueOS, and systems derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) in general,[1] but has been ported to various Linux distributions.[2]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Features
* 3 Ports
* 4 Notes
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## 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.[3] 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".[3] 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.[3] The source code has since been moved to a separate GitHub repository "under the PC-BSD umbrella" and converted to use Qt5.[3] Development also focused on replacing the Fluxbox core with a Qt-based window manager integrated with the Lumina desktop.[3]

The project avoids use of Linux-based tools or frameworks, such as D-Bus, Polkit, and systemd.[4]

## 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.[2] The default panel includes a Start menu, task manager, and system tray, and its location can be customized.[2] Menus may be accessed via the Start menu or by right-clicking the mouse on the desktop background.[2]

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.[1]

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.[2]

Version 1.4 included several new utilities.[5] The PDF reader lumina-pdf is based on the poppler library.[6] 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".[5]

## Ports

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

* Berkeley Software Distribution
* TrueOS[7]
* DragonFly BSD[7]
* FreeBSD[8]
* NetBSD[7]
* OpenBSD[7]
* kFreeBSD[7]
* Linux distributions
* antiX Linux[9]
* Arch Linux[10]
* Debian[7]
* Fedora 24[11]
* Gentoo Linux[7]
* Manjaro Linux[11]
* NixOS[11]
* PCLinuxOS[11]
* Void Linux[12]

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lumina FAQ.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Watson 2016.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Moore 2015.
4. ↑ Lumina Desktop Environment homepage.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nestor 2017.
6. ↑ Larabel 2017.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 Lumina 1.0 release.
8. ↑ Freshports.
9. ↑ "lumina-desktop added to repos – antiX Linux" (in en-US). https://antixlinux.com/lumina-desktop-added-to-repos/.
10. ↑ Arch Linux.
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 "Lumina Adds Luster to Linux Desktop". 14 February 2017. https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84301.html.
12. ↑ Void Linux.

## References

* Larabel, Michael (23 November 2017). "Lumina 1.4 Desktop Environment Released". Phoronix. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lumina-1.4-Released.
* Moore, Ken (September 2015). "Basis Of The Lumina Desktop Environment". BSD Magazine. https://bsdmag.org/lumina_desktop/. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
* Nestor, Marius (22 November 2017). "Lumina 1.4 Desktop Environment debuts with new Theme Engine and ZFS integrations". Softpedia. http://news.softpedia.com/news/lumina-1-4-desktop-environment-debuts-with-new-theme-engine-and-zfs-integrations-518678.shtml.
* Watson, J.A. (18 August 2016). "Hands-on: Lumina Desktop 1.0.0". ZDNet. http://www.zdnet.com/article/hands-on-lumina-desktop-1-0-0/.
* "Lumina". Arch Linux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lumina.
* "Lumina". Freshports. https://www.freshports.org/x11/lumina/.
* "Version 1.0.0 Released". Lumina Desktop Environment project. https://lumina-desktop.org/version-1-0-0-released/.
* "Lumina Desktop FAQ/Status Update". Lumina Desktop Environment project. https://lumina-desktop.org/faq/.
* "Lumina Desktop Environment". Lumina Desktop Environment project. https://lumina-desktop.org/.

## External links

* Lumina Desktop Environment
* Moore, Ken (26 April 2014). "Quick Lumina Desktop FAQ". http://blog.pcbsd.org/2014/04/quick-lumina-desktop-faq/.
* on GitHub

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