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Installing LXQt on Raspberry Pi

1. Install Raspberry Pi OS Lite

Download the Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit image, burn it to an SD card, boot your Raspberry Pi with it and follow installation instructions.

2. Make sure everything is up to date

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot

3. Configure Raspberry Pi

sudo raspi-config

and set everything according to your needs. Note: if you're going to use a VNC server, don't set it up just yet.

4. Install LXQt

sudo apt install lxqt-core xinit

and then reboot, login and

startx

5. Install VNC server (optional):

sudo apt install realvnc-vnc-server

and set it up via

sudo raspi-config

6. Install LightDM

sudo apt install lightdm

7. Install Plymouth, the "splash screen"

sudo apt install rpd-plym-splash

8. Customize the splash screen

Create the image file that's going to be used as a splash screen and save it as splash.png into your home directory. Then proceed to configure it as follows:

cd /usr/share/plymouth/themes/pix/
sudo mv splash.png splash.png.ORG
sudo cp ~/splash.png .
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo reboot

Tested on a Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspberry Pi OS Lite 64-bit, kernel version 6.1, Debian version 12 (bookworm).