LXQt is always described as “lightweight and modular” - let’s look a little bit closer at the second part. This screen is familiar, where users can choose which parts to run always on startup, or can stop a component:

Although there is no complete GUI menu editor some basic things can be easily achieved - let’s see how.

[updated] As there are now official backports packages available for Ubuntu LTS 22.04 we strongly recommend to use those and therefor to disable the unofficial ppa repository. Please never use both together.

A - mostly visual - overview of the changes and new features added to LXQt after the first preview post.

QTerminal had always had a quite unique “bookmarks” feature but the setup was not very intuitive: the file had to be created first, it had a hardcoded section containing not very useful bookmarks, filtering was not working and so on. Probably few users used it, as some issue were never reported.

What can be expected in the next LQXt release, coming in spring? Here some highlights. Together with some bugfixes and more translations done we are quite happy to have achieved already quite a few improvements - hopefully there will be some more.

We’re happy to start this blog in our website which until now was mostly only about release announcements. We’ll share here news, howtos, tipps&tricks and other things around LXQt.