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For many years, there has been a FreeBSD-based desktop operating system (OS) called PC-BSD. It is intended as a system for general use, so it is worth noting because BSD is mainly used for servers. Most of the time, PC-BSD comes with KDE desktops by default, but KDE is increasingly dependent on Linux-specific technologies, so PC-BSD is increasingly moving away from KDE. PC-BSD becomes Trident, and its default desktop is Lumina, which is a set of widgets that run on the Fluxbox window manager using the same Qt-based toolkit as KDE.

You can find the Lumina desktop in the software repository of the Linux distribution or in the ports tree of BSD. If you have Lumina installed and are already running another desktop, you may find redundant applications (two PDF readers, two file managers, etc.) because Lumina contains some integrated applications. If you only want to try the Lumina desktop, you can install a Lumina-based BSD distribution in a virtual machine such as GNOME Boxes.

If you install Lumina on the current operating system, you must log out of the current desktop session before you can log in to the new session. By default, the session manager (SDDM, GDM, LightDM, or XDM, depending on your settings) will continue to log in to the previous desktop, so you must overwrite that desktop before logging in.

In GDM:

Selecting your desktop in GDM

In SDDM:

Selecting your desktop in KDM

Lumina Desktop

Lumina provides a simple and lightweight desktop environment. There is a panel at the bottom of the screen, with the application menu on the left, the taskbar in the middle, and the system tray on the right. There are icons on the desktop for quick access to common applications and paths.

In addition to this basic desktop structure, Lumina has a custom file manager, PDF viewer, screenshot tools, media players, text editors, and archiving tools. There is also a configuration program to help you customize the Lumina desktop, and right-click the desktop to find more configuration options.

Lumina desktop running on Project Trident

Lumina is very similar to several Linux lightweight desktops, especially LXQT, except that Lumina is completely independent of Linux-based desktop frameworks (such as ConsoleKit, PolicyKit, D-Bus, or systemd). For you, whether this has an advantage depends on the operating system you are running. After all, if you are running a Linux that can access these features, then whether or not to use these features on the desktop may not make much sense and will reduce the functionality. If you are running BSD, running the Lumina widget in Fluxbox means that you do not have to install the Linux compatibility library from ports.

Why use Lumina

Lumina is simple in design and doesn't have many features, but you can install Fluxbox's favorite components (PCManFM for file management, various LXQt applications, Tint2 panels, etc.). In open source, open source users like to find ways not to reinvent the wheel (almost as much as we like to reinvent the wheel).

The Lumina desktop is a quick, reasonable way to use a Fluxbox-based desktop. It has all the features you can't do without, and you rarely need to adjust the details.

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