Lumina

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Lumina removed Dec 21, 2025 - dead upstream.

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Lumina is a lightweight desktop environment, free of D-Bus and *kit, designed to have as few system dependencies and requirements as possible.

Installation

The x11-wm/lumina package is configurable by one USE flag:

To install Lumina desktop, run:

root #emerge --ask x11-wm/lumina

Configuration

A configuration file is installed in /etc/luminaDesktop.conf. Lumina also has a bunch of own configuration tools.

Invocation

Lumina provides its own replacement for startx to be started from console.

user $start-lumina-desktop

Alternatively it can be added to the ~./xinitrc file for being started via startx or a display manager

FILE ~/.xinitrc

[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources
exec start-lumina-desktop

External resources

• Official webpage