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The Lightweight Desktop Environment is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment.

/r/LXQt

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Problem with scale display.

I did installed Lubuntu. I noticed that it's hard to scale the display correctly. Please fixes the tech problems.

8 Comments
2025/01/18
04:16 UTC

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LXQT official repository's outdated (Debian and ubuntu)

Hello. Over the last few months, I have made minimal Debian and Ubuntu servers to mess with. When I download LXQT, it either downloads 1.2 or 1.4. The repo is outdated. Is there any way someone can update it?

11 Comments
2025/01/05
00:47 UTC

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Can you make the panel work like Windows or Cinnamon, or kde etc...

Hi! i always loved LXQt, and decided to return to it, because low resource usage, not like kde, so i switched recently from cinnamon, and i did have an LXQt installation before, but all of my problem was always, to how to get the panel working like in Cinnamon, or the Windows taskbar, what i mean by this is that i click on the icon on the quicklaunch, and instead of putting the newly created instance on the so called "task manager", but make it appear on the quicklaunch shortcut, like over it, or in place of it, you know what i mean.

you notice Zen browser has 2 icons there, it's pinned on quicklaunch, and the 2nd one is what i'm using right now, so i want it combined.

1 Comment
2024/12/29
20:33 UTC

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How do I fix this black screen.

I am using ubuntu-server on a raspberry pi 400 and installed LXqt on it, but all I get is a black screen and a cursor.

5 Comments
2024/12/20
22:51 UTC

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Is the wingmenu still a thing?

Im new to both linux and lxqt. I cant figure out whether there's still a way to get the wingmenu (it fails to install in my system, cant find some qt5 dependency i believe) or if it was merged into the fancy menu. If so, how do i get the icon view in the fancy menu?

8 Comments
2024/12/18
19:00 UTC

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Hoping someone can help ... ? (Window animations)

Hi to everyone. I am using Linux Mint at the moment. But I recently tried Raspberry PI OS using an old version for the desktop. Loved its simplicity. Found out the OS uses LXQt. Tried Debian LXQt. Pretty good. But I need help changing the window manager to something else that will support animations like fade in, fade out, etc. Animations like what are seen in Linux Mint, Windows, etc. Can someone help, please? Thank you very much.

3 Comments
2024/12/13
21:32 UTC

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Looking for a dark theme.

Hello. I am looking for a dark theme that works with lubuntu 24.04.

Please recommend me something, and thank you.

5 Comments
2024/12/07
20:48 UTC

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Your reasons to use LXQt?

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.

10 Comments
2024/11/23
15:59 UTC

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What do I need to do to get LXQt working with Wayland on Arch?

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

19 Comments
2024/11/22
20:05 UTC

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Why is LXQt so underrated?

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.

6 Comments
2024/11/19
20:46 UTC

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LXQt components crashing under wayland.

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.

3 Comments
2024/11/18
13:00 UTC

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One question.

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

3 Comments
2024/11/16
12:56 UTC

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Review: Lxqt + sway worked fine for me!

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!

0 Comments
2024/11/14
01:27 UTC

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Which window manager performs best with LXQt?

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?

8 Comments
2024/11/12
04:08 UTC

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LXQT 2.1 is released with experimental wayland session + compositors suport

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

1 Comment
2024/11/06
00:34 UTC

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Customizing QtCurve on LXQt?

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?

1 Comment
2024/11/01
20:31 UTC

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being lightweight

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

1 Comment
2024/10/30
11:00 UTC

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How to Change Font in KWin Window Theme on LXQt with KWin WM?

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!

4 Comments
2024/09/14
23:42 UTC

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LXQt Wayland session for testing

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/

7 Comments
2024/09/04
14:01 UTC

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Can't put icons on right side of desktop, margin still present (Debian 12)

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

8 Comments
2024/08/26
13:16 UTC

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Lxqt 2.1

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

4 Comments
2024/08/20
17:38 UTC

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[i3/LXQt] Finally got things how I wanted! Can't wait to replicate it on real hardware!

2 Comments
2024/08/13
03:45 UTC

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How to make panel stay on the bottom in lxqt + awesomewm?

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?

0 Comments
2024/08/13
01:42 UTC

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i love lxqt

10 Comments
2024/08/10
05:49 UTC

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LXQt/Wayfire - Win11,看好了!

3 Comments
2024/07/31
12:37 UTC

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LXQT-leave applications not working

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)?

8 Comments
2024/07/28
14:44 UTC

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Was walking in China when I saw this

1 Comment
2024/07/22
12:30 UTC

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