Lumina

Lumina 1.6.2 on DragonFly BSD
Developer(s)	iXsystems
Stable release	1.6.2[1]  / 26 December 2021
Repository	github.com/lumina-desktop/lumina
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,^[2] but has been ported to various Linux distributions.^[3]

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.^[4] 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".^[4] 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.^[4] The source code has since been moved to a separate GitHub repository "under the PC-BSD umbrella" and converted to use Qt5.^[4] Development also focused on replacing the Fluxbox core with a Qt-based window manager integrated with the Lumina desktop.^[4]

The project avoids use of Linux-based tools or frameworks, such as D-Bus, Polkit, and systemd.^[5]

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.^[3] The default panel includes a Start menu, task manager, and system tray, and its location can be customized.^[3] Menus may be accessed via the Start menu or by right-clicking the mouse on the desktop background.^[3]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Version 1.4 included several new utilities.^[6] The PDF reader lumina-pdf is based on the poppler library.^[7] 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".^[6]

Ports

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

• Berkeley Software Distribution
  • TrueOS^[8]
  • DragonFly BSD^[8]
  • FreeBSD^[9]
  • NetBSD^[8]
  • OpenBSD^[8]
  • kFreeBSD^[8]

• Linux distributions
  • antiX Linux^[10]
  • Arch Linux^[11]
  • Debian^[8]
  • Fedora 24^[12]
  • Gentoo Linux^[8]
  • Manjaro Linux^[12]
  • NixOS^[12]
  • PCLinuxOS^[12]
  • Void Linux^{[citation needed]}

See also

• BSD licenses
• Comparison of BSD operating systems
• List of BSD operating systems
• Ports collection

Notes

References

External links

• Lumina Desktop Environment
• Moore, Ken (26 April 2014). "Quick Lumina Desktop FAQ". Retrieved 23 November 2016.
• lumina on GitHub