Next Generation of Lightweight DE – LXQt 0.7.0

  • The inclusion of PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager
  • An all-new modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps
  • Several improvements to the system settings along with the inclusion of screens management, keyboard settings and file associations
  • Improvements to cursor and appearance settings
  • Improved support for systemd-based setups
  • Ongoing work on Qt 5 compatibility. Most of our components already build on Qt 5!
  • Ongoing work on Wayland support. Some components, including PCManFM-Qt, can run on Wayland if QtWayland is available.
  • A new obconf-qt tool, for Openbox users (released separately)
  • A new compton-conf tool, for Compton users (released separately)
  • Several performance improvements
  • Experimental Raspberry Pi support
  • Partial FreeBSD support

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