How to Install Lumina Desktop 1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus via PPA
The Lumina® Desktop Environment is a lightweight system interface designed for use on any Unix-like operating system. Lumina® is based on using plugins, which allows the entire interface to be arranged by each individual user as desired. A system wide default layout is also included, and is configurable by the system administrator. This allows every system (or user session) to be designed to maximize the individual user's productivity. (View some examples)
The Lumina® desktop developers understand that the point of a computer system is to run applications, so Lumina® was designed to require as few system dependencies/requirements as possible. This allows it to be used to revitalize older systems or to allow the user to run applications that may need a higher percentage of the system resources than were previously available with other desktop environments.
Features
For Users
- Completely customizable interface! Rather than having to learn how to use a new layout, change the desktop to suit you instead!
- Simple shortcuts for any application! The “favorites” system makes it easy to find and launch applications at any time.
- Extremely lightweight! Allows applications to utilize more of your system hardware and revitalizes older systems!
- Multiple-monitor support! Each monitor is treated as an independent entity – making it great for presentation systems which use a temporary monitor or for workstations which utilize an array of monitors for various tasks.
For System Administrators
- Personalize the initial settings for users with a single configuration file!
- Default applications
- Appearance settings (Theme, Colors, Wallpaper(s), Icons, Fonts, etc)
- Interface layout (desktop icons/plugins, panels, etc)
- Favorite apps/files
- and more!
- Provides a stable and consistent experience across updates. Cut down on your support time for end-user systems!
For System Builders
- Easily ported to various operating systems (OS), with various optional features setup within a single source file for each OS. Already ported to:
- BSD OS’s: TrueOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, NetBSD
- Linux OS’s: Debian, Gentoo, kFreeBSD, generic “Linux”
- Easily add customized config files for your OS (wallpaper, interface settings, etc).
- Minimal dependencies
- Qt5.2+, Fluxbox, xscreensaver, XCB libraries, other small OS utilities as needed.
Read more the release announce
The latest Lumina desktop release is available to install on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS via a PPA. Note that this PPA is not official and maintained independently of the Lumina project.
How to Install Lumina Desktop 1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus via PPA :
To Install Lumina Desktop 1.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:samoilov-lex/lumina-desktop
sudo apt update
sudo apt install lumina-desktop qterminal
After installation is completed, logOut from ubuntu unity desktop and choose lumina desktop, like this pictures :
