LXQt – lightweight Qt desktop environment

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

LXQt is billed as an advanced, easy-to-use, and fast desktop environment based on Qt technologies. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects. The idea of pooling resources between the two projects is to give users an impressive experience, yet retaining a lot of the development effort of the two projects.

LXQt offers users a fast and stable desktop environment. It is getting close to be ready for use in production desktop machines, though there’s still some work to do. Whilst this desktop environment is not yet available to install from the Ubuntu Software Center, it can be easily installed by typing the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gilir/q-project
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage lxqt-panel openbox

While LXQt is not quite as memory efficient as LXDE or Xfce, the difference is not significant.

Features include:

• Modular architecture, allowing users and maintainers to easily swap out components of the desktop for third party apps.
• PCManFM-Qt, the Qt port of LXDE’s desktop and file manager.
• Efficient program launcher.
• Good power management tools.
• Ongoing support for the Wayland display protocol.
• Experimental Raspberry Pi support.
• Additional packages including the LXQt image viewer, a lightweight Qt terminal emulator, Qt port of ObConf, compatible Qt theme.
• Full Qt5 support.
• Translated into many languages including Russian, Danish, Greek, Basque, Chinese, Romanian, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Ukrainian, and Esperanto.

Website: lxqt-project.org
Support:
Developer: LXQt Team and contributors
License: GNU GPL v2

LXQt is written in C and C++. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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