The LXQt team is proud to announce the release of lxqt-panel 0.15.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

• A new plugin is added for changing display backlight.
• The option “Show only active desktop” is added to Desktop Switcher.
• A basic country flag support is added to Keyboard status indicator.
• An option is added to Task Manager for moving window to next/previous virtual desktop with mouse wheel.
• An option is added to Volume Control for toggling volume notifications with keyboard.
• Better text eliding and painting of Task Manager buttons.
• Smoother menu search.
• Fixed icons of applications like Skype, Doscord,? in Status Notifier (new tray).
• Fixed cut text in World Clock.
• Icons are fetched in an appropriate size to avoid scaling and bluring in Task Manager.
• Fixed panel positioning with multiple screens.
• Made Quick Launch respect Panel’s lock state.
• Override the menu icon size only if a custom font size is selected.
• Fixed a crash in LXQtTaskButton under kwin_wayland.
• Fixed high CPU usage in Desktop Switcher.
• Fixes and enhancements to the old tray plugin.
• Other code fixes and cleanups.

A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.