Hello Colin,
At the end, the installation of 1701 has failed on my laptop.
The message is:
āFailed to unpack image /run/initramfs/omdv/LiveOS/squashfs.img
rsync failed with error code 11.ā
Is there anything I should do to help trouleshooting? Should I submit a bug?
Regards
Olivier
There is a new alpha version of LXQt, build 1870
EDIT: no more available.
FYI, worth to mention that 1870 is 4.0 alpha from cooker repo.
So far all cooker ISOs builds either failed (plasma ISOs) or even if they build (LXQt) ISO failed to boot.
BTW I did not test 1870 yet.
I would try removing what you have and download again and try to install again. ISO 1701 is known to have worked for a lot of folks. Every once in a while when I have had a problem with installing an ISO that āshould workā this has worked for me. Apparently squash.fs files are easily corruptible.
Edit: Removed something.
@Colin has asked that we delay announcement of the (LX X.X XXXX) ISOās until he has them ready which weāre hoping will be by this weekend.
In other words heās telling us they arenāt quite ready for testers yet.
Oops. I wasnāt aware of that. Anyway, the build 1870 isnāt available from abf anymore.
However, I tried it with vbox.
I succeeded to get a live LXQt session (as root) by starting at runlevel 3, then launching startx and, finally, startlxqt from the graphical console.
I think the cooker iso (now build 1873) is not far from being usable.
We can get a live LXQt session simply with:
ā starting live mode at runlevel 3 to get a tty
ā login as root
ā launching sddm: the display asking for language, clock, ā¦ is black and white but it works and ends to the graphical LXQt session that seems to work correctly.
Having the option of multiple window managers like Plasma , Gnome , Enlightenment and Cinnamon etc. is one of the main attractions in linux distros , not being limited to just one environment.
There has to be one or more developers or package maintainers available to do that. Our developers struggle to keep up with the packages most users never think about, the āunder the hoodā stuff at the core of any operating system.
FWIW: There are about 2 more developers working with OM now on Lx 4 than we had when Lx 3 was in development. And a couple of people are starting to help maintaining packages. So there has been some growth. But more is needed. Anyone interested? We can use more help if any of you are.
FWIW-2: Tentatively there are plans for Officially supported desktops for Lx 4 to be Plasma 5, LXQt, and Lumina.
FWIW-3: There may be Community supported efforts for Enlightenment, Cinnamon and/or Mate and maybe Gnome. And there is a need for more people in the Community to step up and help with these efforts.
As always people remember this: OpenMandriva is a Community distro. They is us. We are them.
Well said . 
Well said indeed Ben 
Some community support for MATE was here . It is quite stable on Lx3.0 except for engrampa (due to the lack of libarchive support) and some really minor issues. Testes are welcome, of course.
@mandian I Tried " MATE " from your repo, Not too shabby , I need to play with it some moreā¦canāt figure out how to connect to the internet
there isnāt a box or tab or anything to enter a password for a connection . it will ask for a type of connection such as home or public or trusted but no where to enter a password.
any hints ??
If I remember there may be a missing package ānetworkmanager-appletā which is for gnome. I think that may be what you need in Mate to make
network to be easy peasy.
Yes, @ben79 is right. You may use networkmanager-applet. There is not its latest version in my repository ( I packaged it some time ago) so let me know if I had to update it.
I like easy peasy ā¦I had to install broadcom drivers for my laptop to get wireless to work ,in open suse
Head ache , Head ache , Head ache !!!
is there a particular version of " networkamanger " I can find and install ?
# urpmi networkmanager-applet
Dagnabit!
doh !!! 
Sorry ā¦Iām old school , Iām used to going out to RPM Find net and getting stuff . LOL
Please keep things on topic: MATE comments in MATE discussion and random screenshots, if not related to āCall for testing LXQt-only ISOā, in whatever relevant other discussion.
Postedit: moved wp screenshot.