I use Lxqt More than 2 months recently I got issue on pcmanfm-qt file manager and can't render any icons theme... Please fix this issue by lxqt and pcmanfm-qt community

So, being a lightweight desktop environment, LXQt is a good choice for computers with lesser performance. But there can be many different reasons as well.

When it comes to me, there are a few that easily make it my daily driver. First of all, it's one of the few DEs that uses Qt instead of GTK, which looks better IMO. However, it doesn't have some clutter that I don't like about Plasma and is modular. You don't even have to use the terminal to change the window manager. I enjoy the customizability, I just wish there was an easy way to tweak QtCurve (my personal choice for widget styles) without installing KDE as an alternative or through a virtual machine. And as for the lightweight aspect, my PC isn't a total potato, but I have a tendency to preserve my system resources for stuff that actually matters. That's part of why I'm willing to sacrifice some of the comfort I've had using Windows most of my life - lots of system resources hogged by the basic UI alone that I could've otherwise used to improve gaming performance. Besides, I dig sleeper builds.

I have a working version of LXQt on Arch and I would like to configure it for Wayland. What do I need to do?

So, whenever there's a discussion about DEs for Linux, first ones that come up are GNOME, KDE, Xfce and such. But LXQt is rarely spoken about and in the center of the attention. IMO, LXQt is kind of an unsung hero. It's honestly even more customizable than Plasma in some aspects. It's the only major DE I know about where you can easily swap the window manager from the graphical level. Also, Qt-based widgets allow more customization than GTK-based ones. It's like a complete opposite of GNOME - customizable, light on resources and can look gorgeous when customized right.

But I get that lack of polish in some areas might deter some people. For instance, LXQt color palettes are a separate thing from KDE color schemes which are more complex, so making programs like Discover look good requires extra tinkering and in my case, importing settings from the Plasma environment. Plasma also has the ability to edit some widget styles such as Oxygen or QtCurve, but LXQt lacks it. But honestly, if those features were implemented, it'd make it the perfect DE as a daily driver for me and I already use it as such.

Hello, I'm trying to use LXQt on wayland, but all of the components keep crashing. They give the following error:

`Error relocating /usr/lib/libLayerShellQtInterface.so.6: _ZN15QtWaylandClient14QWaylandWindow9wlSurfaceEv: symbol not found`

I also get the error message regarding the autorestart for components being disabled. The distro I'm trying to run LXQt on is alpine linux, on bare metal with an integrated intel gpu. I've tried running LXQt under Hyprland, sway and labwc. I've compiled lxqt-wayland-session myself since it isn't in the testing repo yet. I've made sure that layer-shell-qt is installed.

How i add a song to startup on my LXQt Arch linux?

ive tested lxqt + sway in the first big distro that kinda packaged it out of the box (suse tumbleweed 2024-11-12), yes it had flickering bugs and slowdows but... it worked fine in a vm, even for a dumb like me! Yes we are reaching the promisse land of the modular wayland desktop environment +Tilling WM. Congrats to the devs! i hope for xfce gets there too Review: Lxqt + sway worked fine for me!

One thing that one can either love or hate is the fact that LXQt doesn't have its own window manager, but then has the ability to seamlessly swap them, I personally appreciate the modularity. Most distros that use LXQt usually come with Openbox, while Debian for some reason defaults to Xfwm. I really enjoy the look and feel of Openbox, but I considered potentially switching to Fluxbox or IceWM. Which ones do you recommend?

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LXQT 2.1 is released with experimental wayland session + compositors suport
https://lxqt-project.org/release/2024/11/05/release-lxqt-2-1-0/

*BTW no main distros packaged it yet lol 6/11/24
https://repology.org/project/lxqt-session/versions

Been messing around with themes to pick one that's exactly for me. I quite enjoy both Kvantum and QtCurve, but one thing about the second one gives me trouble - in KDE, all the customization options can be accessed through the widget style menu with one click, as some themes have their own switches. LXQt doesn't have such thing. Kvantum makes it much easier in this aspect because it uses a separate application, so I'm using it for now. Is there any option to access those settings in LXQt?

how much cpu and ram does LxQT use with nothing open?

Hi everyone,

I'm using LXQt with KWin as the window manager on my Linux machine, and I'm looking to change the font used in the KWin window decorations. I’ve tried looking through the settings but haven’t been able to find where to adjust the font settings for the window theme.

Can anyone guide me on how to change the font in the KWin window decorations? Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks a lot!

The (experimental) LXQt #wayland session is in git now. Feedback from is testers appreciated!

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/ConfigWaylandSettings

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-wayland-session/

As title, trying to put icon on most right side of desktop a margin is still present (on left side of desktop this doesn't happen), I have not panel on that side. Any suggestion?
Thanks

Do we know an exact release date for lxqt 2.1, yet?

Whenever I log back in, the dock, or bar is at the top instead of at the bottom. I can change it back in the settings but it's kind of annoying. is there any fix?

Hello, i've been using lxqt for two weeks, 3 days ago i setted up proxychains and firewalld (i'm on opensuse tumbleweed). They work but i don't know how, now lxqt-leave apps like shutdown, reboot etc... don't work, neither those into the dialog menu.

If i use one of them, the system returns to login screen... i could turn off with shutdown or systemctl but i would like to figure out what is the problem.

I've read similar cases but i haven't found a solution, do you know how to solve this issue (apart from reinstalling lxqt)?

By default, it comes with Xscreensaver, but i want to use something like the screenlocker of sddm

Or other alternatives for screen locking

So, i use my laptop with a second monitor, i have a panel for each screen, one for the laptop and the other one for the monitor. So, when i disconnect the monitor, instead of disappearing, the panel of the monitor is moved to the laptop screen, and i want to that not happen, but without the need to remove and add the panel every time

Hello,

I have a LXQt setup where I use autorandr instead of lxqt-config-monitor to setup my displays, mainly because I find it way easier to use it to save/detect/switch multiple display profiles. So I replace the autostart .desktop file of lxqt-config-monitor with one that runs autorandr instead.

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Everything works fine, except that when I log in, the wallpaper on my secondary display won't be shown properly (half of it is covered in black). This can be fixed by right clicking on the background, bring up the pcmanfm-qt desktop preference dialog, then press "Apply" to make it redraw the wallpaper. However, this is all very annoying, and I rather have a simple script that does this redrawing a certain delay after I log in.

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I tried playing around with pcmanfm-qt on the command line, but nothing seems to work. (The --set-wallpaper option doesn't seem to do anything, only the apply button in the dialog window do). Is this possible with pcmanfm-qt at all? If not, is it possible to disable pcmanfm-qt and use some other program(s) to handle file management/desktop instead? (I used to use nemo+nitrogen).

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