Hello, I'm using Debian with LXQt, and I'm drawing in Aseprite. I'm used to Aseprite shortcut, to pick a color (alt+left click), but in Debian alt+lclick drags windows, making it impossible to pick a color that way. I found a solution to turn it off in IceWM, when I used it with Ubuntu. Is there also a way to do so with LXQt?

Has anyone been able to use kwin from plasma 6 as the window manager? I don't know if this is a nixos issue or a new thing in plasma 6, but if I run kwin 6.0 I don't have access to the kwin effects, when selecting desktop effects in systemsettings I get qml:16 module "org.kde.newstuff" is not installed, even though it is installed, even with a full plamsa install I get that error, if its not a nixos issue then that could be problematic for LXQt, especially for the future wayland support, that would effectively rule out being able to use kwin, unless you're happy sticking with the default animations, it works fine with kwin from plasma 5, I have access to all the kwin effects, there is labwc and wayfire, but those don't have smart window placement, which rules them out for me.

Edit: Turns out labwc 0.7.1 has smart window placement now, awesome!

do any of you guys use lxqt to game on? looking to mess around with a new DE. been on KDE for a while. I see all of the nice custom jobs on the DE, but is it amazing to game on?

Here's a port of the Shiki-Colors theme set -- remember those? -- to LXQt. I've wanted to do these for years now: code available here on the git.

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I have awkwardly large toolbar icon on pcmanfm-qt. My window manager is xfwm. Is it because I set Xft.dpi: 15 in my ~/.Xresources?

I dunno where to put LXQt themes to install 'em, how'd I install one?

Sooo, while not one of the main coders, I've been developing a large number of themes, mostly backports of older popular styles from other desktops.

LXQt apparently plans to launch v2.0 sometime this month. In my opinion, this is not ready for primetime. The main reason why is the new, and supposedly default, menu plugin, Fancy Menu.

This plugin exists as a QWidget with the Popup application hint set. It is not themeable to the extent of the other plugins in the collection; specifically, there is no way to get transparency consistently working with it, as it only works with Kvantum and no other Qt style (yes, Qt style, NOT LXQt theme...confused yet?).

What this means is that any theme that wants to make use of transparency or translucency is going to look inconsistent. If an LXQt theme that tries to theme Fancy Menu with an alpha channel is set, the transparency will not work, unless the user also chooses the Kvantum system-wide Qt widgets style. Inconsistency like this is worse than not working at all, honestly.

Further, while Wayland support is advertised for v2.1 in the fall, if anything this is even less complete. Tsujan and the other devs insist that LXQt is WM-agnostic; all well and good, but we're kidding ourselves if we don't acknowledge that virtually every distro other than Garuda ships it with Openbox and virtually no one who isn't a dev changes it. LabWC is the closest thing going on Wayland, and it doesn't support Openbox themes properly. It also may never do, despite the main developer saying he'd like to see it implemented that way. The syntax is identical, but at this point only a small subset of Openbox theme features are supported despite it letting you select Openbox themes for use.

What this means is that LXQt-on-X11 and LXQt-on-Wayland are not one-to-one equivalents. This is going to cause serious confusion for Lubuntu users among others; most people running a full DE don't want to have to mess with choosing WMs or compositors. I love LXQt and it's my daily driver, but it's for this exact reason that I don't want this thing getting released until it's done baking.

I've been loving LXQt so far, and am super excited about Wayland. Is there any word on when this will ship to the Fedora spin?

For example change the default "go to the parent folder" backspace shortcut to something else?

I am running Arch Linux with LXQt + openbox.

My problem is that whenever I use the LXQt Runner to start dolphin (which is set as my default file manager because I like it), it completely ignores the style and icon set I set both in settings (and qt5ct / qt6ct) and instead uses some material design icons instead of the chosen oxygen ones.

However it functions perfectly when I start it via any terminal like xfce4-terminal or even xterm.

I am totally baffled, checked my environment veriables to properly being set to qt5ct / qt6ct (checked with both) but the error persists.

Even after moving my config folder for LXQt and starting fresh, this issue still remains.

Any ideas?

did any of you had this issue? i installed picom to fix screen tearing. it didn't make config file so i made my own. i didn't add any opacity rules so none of windows are transparent except lxqt application menu that in xprop is considered part of lxqt-panel but it clearly has different settings because panel isn't transparent at all. i'm using fedora 39 can someone help ;3 ?

Void Linux.

Settings in Xfwm4 configuration tool re:double click action are not applied to the system. I have uninstalled Openbox. No idea what is causing the issue :( Any ideas are appreciated.

share some lxqt plugins made by the community. im currently running Debian 12

Not sure how to explain this and pretty sure I am just missing something. I installed Fedora originally with KDE and switched to LXQT post install. Everything looks great except I have a few apps where the fonts are black on black. The biggest culprit is the Discover app. When there is an update I am flying blind because I can't see much more than that there are apps to update. Does anyone know a quick fix for this?

Apologize if this is stupid or if wrong place to ask but very frustrated at this point.

Does anyone know if its possible to set the desktop wallpaper without having to install pcmanfm-qt? I use dolphin as my file manager and don't have pcmanfm-qt installed, I've tried setting the wallpaper using feh and nitrogen, but the screen always remains black, its like a black screen gets placed on top of the wallpaper because when I logout for a split second before I get booted out to lightdm I see the wallpaper, its like lxqt is trying to manage the desktop wallpaper.

Edit: here's a slow motion video of the problem https://youtu.be/rBAsr8vG8PA

Edit: So the problem was running kwin with compositing enabled, so as a work around I've disabled compositing and installed picom-next.

Hello. Lubuntu 22.04 lts

I edited the main menu using pcmanfm. But this even after restart of the system does not actually apply the changes to the lubuntu main menu. HOW do I make the changes I made in the applications to show up in the actual main menu ???

For the record - all I did was moving application from one category to another. I spent like 2 hours googling so far and no luck. Tried alacarte - no luck either (it reflects the pcmanfm changes, but not the actual lubuntu main menu.

All I want is only to move applications from one category to another. I am not editing the categories themselves.

Thanks!

Greetings,

I have a problem with the UI scaling, respectively with the forcing of DPI settings. Changes to the DPI value in the lxqt configuration are applied by non-Qt applications but not by native Qt applications, i.e. also by the UI.

I can temporarily fix this by using xrandr and forcing the DPI value to 96, but even autorandr does not apply these settings permanently and after every login the UI font is much too large, contrary to the applications.

Any way to tackle this?

Hi,

I'd like to announce the release of Crystal Remix icon theme v2.0 and Crystal Dock v1.0:

Crystal Remix icon theme v2.0

Crystal Remix is a Crystal icon theme for modern Linux desktop environments, created by combining/mixing different versions of the Crystal icon theme (that were originally created for KDE 3 desktop).

Version 2.0 now supports various Linux desktop environments (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce, LXQt etc.) instead of only KDE Plasma as in v1.0.

Release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme/releases/tag/v2.0

Crystal Dock v1.0

Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to use, and cross-desktop support (KDE Plasma, GNOME, LXQt, Cinnamon, MATE). Currently Crystal Dock supports X11 only, but it will support Wayland eventually.

Crystal Dock is the successor to the KDE-only KSmoothDock.

Release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v1.0

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Crystal Dock with Crystal Remix icon theme

Blog post: https://dangvd.blogspot.com/2023/11/crystal-remix-icon-theme-v20-and.html

Hope you like them, and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

LXQt 1.4.0 is released:

https://lxqt-project.org/release/2023/11/05/release-lxqt-1-4-0/

I have just installed arch linux and decided to give lxqt a try. I managed to fix the missing icons problem, with just one exception: the world clock just doesn't show up. It's just there taking a small space on the panel, without displaying any digits or anything (when I click on the small space, the calendar shows up as usual). I believe it's a different problem than the usual "world clock is truncated" problem. What should I do? Please let me know if I need to provide more information (and how do I do it). Thank you.

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imagine if lxqt have its own version of application dashboard (kde fullscreen thing)

I injected LXQt in Nobara 38 Gnome, i loved the DE, but there's a big problem. If i press F4 in my Lenovo Laptop keyboard it does mute my mic, but in both LXQt and LXDE i'm unable to do it so. What should i do?

i have heard that this desktop environment is quite low use on memory so i installed it and rebooted. i went to use lxqt and system monitor says it use ~2 GB s. Why it use so many even cinnamon don't use that much. Is there a way to fix high ram usage

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