LXQt
LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment. It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system. It is focused on being a classic desktop with a modern look and feel.
LXQt team formed from the LXDE-Qt and Razor-qt projects
Overview
About LXQt
LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment.
It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system. It is focused on being a classic desktop with a modern look and feel.
- Modular components
- Powerful file manager
- Customize appearance everywhere
- Panel(s) with many plugins and settings
- X11 Window Manager agnostic
- Seven Wayland compositors supported
Applications
- PcManFm-qt - File Manager
- Lximage-qt - Image Viewer
- QTerminal - Terminal Emulator
- Qps - Process Viewer
- Screengrab - Screen Capturer
- LXQt-archiver - Archive Manager
- LXQt-runner - Application launcher and calculator
LXQt is available for all major Linux and BSD distributions so you may just try it out on your system or in a VM.
More information about installing can be found in the LXQt Wiki.
Historically, LXQt was 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.
More on this topic can be found in the Wiki.
Notable features
Interchangeable window manager/compositor,PCManFM-Qt desktop,modular Qt components and an unusually broad supported-compositor matrix on Wayland
Gallery
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