LXQt – Wikipedia
Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment
LXQt is a free and open source lightweight desktop environment. It was formed from the merger of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects.
Linux distributions that offer a version with LXQt as default desktop include Artix Linux LXQt edition, Lubuntu, Manjaro LXQt edition, the LXQt spin of Fedora Linux and SparkyLinux LXQt Full Edition, while other distributions like Debian and openSUSE offer it as an alternative desktop during installation.[3][4][5][6]
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Dissatisfied with GTK 3,[7]LXDE maintainer Hong Jen Yee experimented with Qt in early 2013[8] and released the first version of a Qt-based PCMan File Manager on 26 March 2013.[7] He clarified, though, that this means no departure from GTK in LXDE, saying “The GTK and Qt versions will coexist”. He later ported LXDE’s Xrandr front-end to Qt.[9]
On 3 July 2013 Hong Jen Yee announced a Qt port of the full LXDE suite,[10] and on 21 July 2013, Razor-qt and LXDE announced that they had decided to merge the two projects.[11][12] This merge meant that the GTK and the Qt versions coexisted in the short term, but eventually development of the GTK version was dropped and all efforts were focused on the Qt port.[11] The merger of LXDE-Qt and Razor-qt was renamed LXQt,[13] and the first release, version 0.7.0, was made available on 7 May 2014.[14]
With the 0.13 release on 21 May 2018 the LXQt project formally split from LXDE with the move to a separate GitHub organization.[15]
LXQt uses Openbox as its default window manager.
Software components[edit]
LXQt consists of many modular components, some of them depending on Qt and KDE Frameworks 5.[16]
| Name | Dependencies (besides Qt) | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| qterminal | Use the command line, composed for and now part of LXQt | |
| Falkon | Web browser | |
| sddm | Simple Desktop Display Manager composed for LXQt and in QML | |
| lximage-qt | Image viewer | |
| lxmenu-data | Files required for freedesktop.org desktop menus | |
| lxqt-about | About dialog | |
| lxqt-admin | System administration tool | |
| lxqt-archiver | File archiver | |
| lxqt-common | Common files (graphics files, themes, desktop entry files …) | |
| lxqt-config | KScreen (RandR) | System settings center |
| lxqt-globalkeys | Daemon and library for global keyboard shortcuts registration | |
| lxqt-notificationd | Notification daemon | |
| lxqt-openssh-askpass | openssh password prompt | |
| lxqt-panel | Solid | Desktop panel (taskbar) |
| lxqt-policykit | Polkit authentication agent | |
| lxqt-powermanagement | Solid | Power management daemon |
| lxqt-qtplugin | Qt platform integration plugin (all Qt-based programs can adopt settings of LXQt) | |
| lxqt-runner | Application launcher | |
| lxqt-session | session manager | |
| lxqt-sudo | GUI frontend for sudo/su | |
| menu-cache | ||
| obconf-qt | Openbox configuration tool written in Qt | |
| pavucontrol-qt | PulseAudio | Volume manager for PulseAudio |
| compton-conf | GUI configuration tool for Compton X composite manager (metacity ⇒ xcompmgr ⇒ dcompmgr ⇒ Compton)[17] | |
| pcmanfm-qt | File manager, Qt port of PCManFM | |
| qt-gtk-engine | Theming GTK 3 programs with Qt styles | |
| screengrab | Screenshot program |
Version history[edit]
| LXQt releases | ||
|---|---|---|
| Version | Date | Key features |
| 0.7[14] | 7 May 2014 | |
| 0.8[18] | 13 Nov 2014 | bringing full Qt 5 compatibility |
| 0.9[19] | 8 Feb 2015 | Featuring heavy internal cleanups and refactorings. Compatibility with Qt 4 was dropped, requiring Qt 5 & KDE Frameworks 5. Qt 5.3 is now the minimum required version.[20] |
| 0.10[21] | 2 Nov 2015 | |
| 0.11[22] | 24 Sep 2016 | To address concerns that Qt-based apps have heavy memory usage, this release was compared against Xfce, revealing that, after a cold boot, LXQt’s memory usage was of 112 MB, just a bit less than Xfce.[23] |
| 0.12[24] | 21 May 2017 | minimum Qt version 5.6.1[25] |
| 0.13 [15] | 21 May 2018 | All packages are ready for Qt 5.11 |
| 0.14[26] | 25 Jan 2019 | |
| 0.15[27] | 24 Apr 2020 | |
| 0.16[28] | 4 Nov 2020 | Three new themes; Clearlooks, Leech and Kvantum. |
| 0.17[29] | 15 Apr 2021 | |
| 1.0.0[30] | 5 Nov 2021 | |
| 1.1.0[31] | 15 Apr 2022 | |
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