LXQt – The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

LXQt is a lightweight Qt-based desktop environment.

LXQt is the product of the merge between LXDE-Qt, an initial Qt flavour of LXDE, and Razor-qt, a project aiming to develop a Qt based desktop environment with similar objectives as the current LXQt.

The environment is in an early stage of development.

Features include:

• Speed.
• Lightweight nature.
• Elegance.
• Good user interface consistency.
• Bottom panel which lets you launch applications, switch virtual desktops, and see what software’s running.
• Indicators – volume control, network applet, clock, input language switcher, and lots more that can be added.
• Useful utilities such as Qterminal, Screengrab tool, and QPS process explorer. Many other applications are standalone. ScreenGrab lets users create screenshots, and easily publish them on internet image hosting services.
• One-stop configuration application  – the control panel lets you customize the environment.

Website: lxqt-project.org
Support: GitHub code repository
Developer: LXQt team
License: GNU GPL 2.0+ and GNU LGPL 2.1+

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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