# lxqt-admin ## Overview This repository provides two GUI tools to adjust settings of the operating system LXQt is running on. Both are using [polkit](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/) to handle permissions. In contrast to the specific backends described below, earlier versions of lxqt-admin were relying on [system-tools-backends](http://system-tools-backends.freedesktop.org) and their wrapper [liboobs](https://developer.gnome.org/liboobs/). These were replaced, as both have gone unmaintained for years and were hence dropped from many distributions - heavily restricting the usage of lxqt-admin. As long as they can be built, it should still be possible to compile lxqt-admin release ≤ 0.10 against them in order to make use of it on platforms lacking systemd (like BSD). ### Time and date configuration Adjusts the time and date. Binary is `lxqt-admin-time`.  It is using `systemd-timedated` as its backend, which is accessed by its D-Bus interface. As such, this means the option to sync the system time by NTP is relying on `systemd-timesyncd` as a backend. ### User and Group Settings Management of users and groups. Binary is `lxqt-admin-user`.  The backend is a script, `lxqt-admin-user-helper`. As such, it is using the shadow tools to do the actual work. However, the script can still be modified to use different tools. ## Installing ### Compiling sources Runtime dependencies consist of polkit and [liblxqt](https://github.com/lxqt/liblxqt). A polkit agent should be available with [lxqt-policykit](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-policykit/), representing the first choice in LXQt. Additional build dependencies are CMake and optionally Git, to pull the latest VCS checkouts. Code configuration is handled by CMake. CMake variable `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` will normally have to be set to `/usr`. To build, run `make`. To install, run `make install` which accepts variable `DESTDIR` as usual. ### Binary packages Package `lxqt-admin` is available in the official repositories of all major distributions. #### openSUSE openSUSE does not ship with lxqt-admin in it's standard repositories since the functionality is covered by openSUSE's [YaST](http://yast.github.io/). It is still possible to install & use it on openSUSE. ## Usage Much like similar tools provided by [lxqt-config](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-config), the tools of lxqt-admin can be launched from the [Configuration Center](https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-config#configuration-center), as well as from the panel's main menu - Preferences - LXQt settings. The actual usage should be self-explanatory. To apply settings the GUI of the polkit authentication agent that's in use is launched to acquire the root password. ### Translations Translations can be done in [LXQt-Weblate/admin-user](https://translate.lxqt-project.org/projects/lxqt-configuration/lxqt-admin-user/) and in [LXQt-weblate/admin-time](https://translate.lxqt-project.org/projects/lxqt-configuration/lxqt-admin-time/). <a href="https://translate.lxqt-project.org/projects/lxqt-configuration/lxqt-admin-user/"> <img src="https://translate.lxqt-project.org/widgets/lxqt-configuration/-/lxqt-admin-user/multi-auto.svg" alt="Translation status" /> </a>
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