Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 37. LXQt Desktop

layer-shell-qt-6.1.4 for lxqt

Introduction to layer-shell-qt

This component is meant for applications to be able to easily use clients based on a "wtl-layer-shell" protocol. Clients can use this interface to assign the surface_layer role to wl_surfaces. Such surfaces are assigned to a "layer" of the output and rendered with a defined z-depth respective to each other.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.

[Important]

Important

This package is extracted from the plasma set of packages. If Plasma-6.1.4 is built, do NOT also build this package as presented here.

Package Information

layer-shell-qt Dependencies

Required

extra-cmake-modules-6.5.0 and Qt-6.7.2

Installation of layer-shell

Install layer-shell-qt by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -W no-dev ..                 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libLayerShellQtInterface.so
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/qml/org/kde/layershell, /usr/include/LayerShellQt, and /usr/lib/wayland-shell-integration