After more than a year of development LXQt 0.15.0 desktop environment release took place, developed by the LXDE project. The LXQt c interfaceoncontinues to follow the ideas of a classic desk organization, providing a modern appearance to improve usability.
LXQt is positioned as a lightweight, modular, fast and convenient continuation from the development of the Razor-qt and LXDE desktops, which has absorbed the best features of both.
For those who are unaware of LXQt, they should know that this esa free and open source desktop environment for Linux, the result of the merger between the LXDE and Razor-qt projects and which is positioned as an excellent option for low-resource teams or those who prefer to save resourcess, as the biggest improvement to LXQt is it provides a lightweight desktop and much more control than LXDE.
What's new in LXQt 0.15.0?
In this new version the editing the PCManFM-Qt file manager and the underlying LibFM-Qt library, in which have added an option to support single window operation (no dialog boxes in separate windows).
Besides that sand implemented the ability to permanently or temporarily save passwords used during mounting (works with gnome-keyring).
Another change is that the tooltip was enhanced with file information, an option to determine the time after which the files in the trash should be deleted automatically, change the thumbnails on the fly.
The LXQt Archiver file manager is also highlighted, built on the basis of the LibFM-Qt library and used by default in PCManFM-Qt to access files.
As for the improvements to the configuration of the display (s), we can find what was added support for placing wallpapers in multiple monitor setups, a new plugin to control the brightness of the backlight from the screen, an option has been added to the desktop switch to show only the active desktop and has also been added a mode to reduce screen brightness after a certain time of inactivity to the power management system.
In terminal emulator QTerminal, the dialog has been redesigned configuration that has become more compact and movable, also se offers the ability to set your own fixed sizes and display them without frames along with an added option to send the history to a text editor. Flickering issues when switching fonts have been resolved.
In the image viewer LXImage-Qt, a dialog has been added to the file menu to work with files to open a file in an external application, added the ability to configure hotkeys and the size of the recently opened file list and an image outline display mode was also added.
Of the other changes that occur in this new version they are:
- Extended menu to search for information.
- Proper panel positioning is provided in multi-monitor setups.
- An option has been added to the task manager to move windows to the next or previous virtual desktop using the mouse wheel.
- The libQtXdg library sharpened the display of icons in SVG format when zoomed in.
- Improved work with file extensions in the file dialog.
- Keyboard navigation was improved.
To know more details about the release of this new version, you can check them In the following link.
Finally se expect the compilations for Ubuntu (LXQt is offered by default on Lubuntu), Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, FreeBSD, ROSA and ALT Linux, are ready in a matter of hours or in a few days (depending on the distribution).
If you are interested in downloading the source code and compiling on your own, you should know that it is hosted on GitHub and it comes under the GPL 2.0+ and LGPL 2.1+ licenses.
And what happened to the web, abandoned? The same for lxde, it hasn't loaded for weeks.