After almost a year of hard work, the LXQt 0.7.0 release, the first version of the desktop environment created jointly by the developers of LXDE and Razor-QT. What at first was nothing more than port LXDE from GTK2 to QT (and save the trouble of GTK3) soon became the union with the Razor-QT team In order to bring the best of both worlds, to the happiness of many people who saw too many forks and no merge. Well, there you have one.
They say that the teams also received a very welcome collaboration from the Maui Project, in addition to the fact that the KDE project made it easier to work with desktop libraries in their attempts to create a modular KDE.
What are the main characteristics of LXQt?
- The usual PCManFM but ported to QT
- A new modular architecture that allows components to be removed from the desktop for third-party applications.
- Screen handling, keyboard settings and file associations
- Better support for systemd-based configurations
- Most of its components work with QT 5
- Support attempts for Wayland (I suppose that is what the Maui project has collaborated on)
- Experimental support for Raspberry Pi
- Partial support for FreeBSD
- Improvements, bug fixes, etc.
And from what they show in the screenshots, it doesn't look bad.
For those who want to try it, here are the links:
Source code: http://lxqt.org/downloads/0.7.0/
AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lxqt-desktop-git/
PPA packages for ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~gilir/+ppa-packages
Repositories for Siduction: http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt
The support for pi, if they can make wayland work it will be great.
Good
Well, I tried to test it and there was no way in debian, the siduction repos are down, it was impossible for me to clone the code repo in git and what is in the lubuntu ppa's does not work for me 🙁
You have to erase the spaces that you have more in the direction of the repo ... salu2
deb http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt next main
deb-src http://packages.siduction.org/lxqt next main
do not copy and paste
Pura vida mateo, but in fact I wrote them. Do they serve you?
Looks great. Better than Lxde based on gtk2.
tell me if i'm right
on my Lubuntu 14.04 I add the positorio and give it update & dist-upgrade?
Qt is taking a lot of ground from GTK, since Gnome3 came out GTK went to the trash
what happens is that kde is getting lighter, and especially the lxqt development branch, unlike gnome, which gets fatter and fatter ... they are two different approaches, and although I hate kde, I love qt
I still hate KDE I love Qt.
What happens is that before gtk2 was a lighter toolkit than qt4, so many projects preferred it. But that is not true with gtk3 and qt5. When having to migrate, many preferred to go to qt instead of migrating to gtk3. In addition, there seems to be more collaboration on the side of qt projects although that is my appreciation.
I imagine it is not as light as LXDE or am I wrong?
In theory yes, that's the idea. But seeing the result probably not.
in theory and in practice it will be fatter, but not close to the consumption of gnome and kde, and it will also have better energy consumption, unlike lxde
Can you see if something is light or heavy from a screenshot?
What better than LXDE devs to answer that question (pay special attention to what you have running, before judging the numbers) http://blog.lxde.org/?p=1026
But this LXQt is not similar to disabling composer effects and disabling services that we don't use?
You no longer use Chakra and use a deb distro? u and how things change, let's never say we won't drink this water.
Ahm you're going to excuse me but what the hell does this comment have to do with it? Here you are looking for scab ... and I can see myself moderating this. What a bummer.
Do not be provoked 😀
the best thing is that this boy must have no idea what a .deb package includes !! Maybe they think "pros" for using arch or kaos (mama mia !!).
Since I myself announced in this blog the merger of both projects (and the birth of both) I have been compiling each new version and the truth is that it works well, although as with LXDE I use Fluxbox instead of Openbox.
Consume something else, something normal since QT4 and 5 consume more than GTK2. They still have work to do, but between this, and Moonligth (which I also compile every time it is updated) we see having good light environments
What good news ...
it's a good advance
it is looking good
I'll keep waiting for a distro that by default brings it, to avoid mixing QT applications with GTK 😀
Hello, very good, excellent, I do not have space on the hard disk, someone can do me the following favors
1 - In the terminal, use the command
$ ps -A | grep-session
and tell me what is the name of the binary of the session lxqt
2 - Does anyone know if this desktop has its own version of something like "Zenity, Mate-Dialog, KDialog" ???
It's that I'm making a Wine installation script for any distro, but with the new desktops, I don't know what the desktop binary is called, it's to do it graphically 🙂
Check this link for more information, better detailed.
Too bad for 14.04 nanay
http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/installing-the-lightweight-lxde-qt-desktop/
I have tried to compile it via aur in archlinux and nothing gets caught at startup and there are no decorators the same then I compile it by hand when I have a while.
in the source pon line: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lxqt-desktop-git/
Compiled this but when starting it is caught is what I wanted to say
Did you install openbox?
Well I think that's going to be it.
I just tried it and nothing but well nothing happens I'll wait a bit to see if they add it to the repos and add more documentation in the archlinux wiki, for the moment with xfce I'm fine.
What good news !!, I have been following the project, so I will be testing it shortly, since I really like light desktops and QT apps ... I had tried it in archlinux a long time but it did not work very well.
Currently I use an openbox desktop, but gtk apps do not convince me, I think that lxqt can be a solution for my preferences.
I think it will be one of the most used desks in a long time, its simplicity, graphic quality and lightness make it, at least for me, quite attractive. It's like KDE, but with less stuff, that's how I see it.
The problem I see are the Qt applications, in Qt Apps there are some very good applications but most of them do not receive updates. since 2010 or even earlier. Example Qterminal, juffed (text editor). Siduction 14 proposes the best there is for Qt, (Qupzilla, Qbittorrent, qpdfview, qterminal) + lxqt, but the result is very fart, there are still many applications missing, what surprises me is that the development of applications in qt is almost dead. Except for Qupzilla and Qbittorrent (which are not a big deal either and are full of bugs. Another problem is the rubbish themes although you can use gtk + in qt4-config and install a gtk theme, the best thing would be to have your own themes, It will be necessary to see if qtcurve can be used and that there is some tool (not kde) to configure. Hopefully it improves with time but I do not see much future ...
I have installed ubuntu14.04, I have added the ppa and it does not finish installing. It gives me an error in some dependencies and it doesn't install lxqt-panel or lxqt-metapackage. Is there anything else to add? Are the repositories wrong?
I followed the instructions of http://xpressubuntu.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/installing-the-lightweight-lxde-qt-desktop/
These were the commands:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa: lubuntu-dev / lubuntu-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage openbox
sudo apt-get install lxqt-panel
It tells me that there are unfulfilled dependencies…?
Looks great in captures. I'm going to test it on Arch.
It's my first blog post so I'm not very talkative.
the BOOM got screwed! that xfce had as a root of gnome3. LXqt is here to stay and be the default on many distros. I predict that in two years it is more used than xfce !!
My question is regarding performance / consumption because although it is true that Qt5 gives less sticks than GTK3 it is also true that Qt consumes a minimum more which could make it not advisable for old PCs (256 MB RAM) that I have in my job.
Great news.
Wait for it to get to the Debian repositories.