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bomben
Asked: 2018-10-20 13:06:04 +0800 CST

Is the only way to add a quicklaunch in LXQt by mouse?

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I try to add a quicklaunch item to the panel in Lubuntu 18.10. This seems only to work with drag and drop from the start menu and not via a menu for the panel setting.

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  1. Best Answer

    That's correct; as of LXQt 0.13 there is no way to modify this within the LXQt Panel settings; it's mouse only.

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  2. Sorry, it should read like this:

    [quicklaunch]

alignment=Left

apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-qt.desktop

apps\2\desktop=/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

apps\3\desktop=/usr/share/applications/qterminal.desktop 

apps\size=3 

type=quicklaunch
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  3. This is how I did it in Lubuntu 19.04 to get the qterminal into the panel by changing the quicklaunch-section in the file "~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf":

    [quicklaunch] alignment=Left
apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-qt.desktop
apps\2\desktop=/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
apps\3\desktop=/usr/share/applications/qterminal.desktop 
apps\size=3
> type=quicklaunch
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  4. Is the only way to add a quicklaunch in LXQt by mouse? (understood as drag-and-drop)
    NO

    What I just did in Lubuntu 20.04:

    1. Right click on the panel -> Configure panel
    2. Select Widgets
    3. Select + (Add widget)
    4. Select Quick launch. This opens a new group of quick launch icons. Select the terminal icon from the menu.

    That's it. You could check the contents of ~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf, under sections [quicklaunch] and [quicklaunch2], to understand the implied changes. This is what I obtained

    [quicklaunch2]
alignment=Left
apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/qterminal.desktop
apps\size=1
type=quicklaunch

    Manual modifications suggested in other answers are consistent with this.

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