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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Lubuntu 22.04

In Widget Style i have set "Only display the icon" but it has no Effect.

Not sure if it's LXQt or Openbox issue, but when I open a new window, I want it to appear on current virtual desktop, but instead it appears on the last desktop it remembered.

How do I disable it? Using Lubuntu 24.04.

Adding exec lxqt to sway config file sort of opens lxqt but lxqt panel is in the middle, opening other apps and widgets results in a sort of situation where the apps and widgets and the desktop itself is split in half as if they were all apps.

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.