The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment

Release qterminal 2.2.0

The LXQt team announces the release of qterminal 2.2.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

  • Prompt on closing with a running process.
  • Added option for mouse cursor auto-hiding.
  • Added option for blinking cursor.
  • Added an option for focusing the sub-terminal on mouseover.
  • Cleaner preferences dialog.
  • Change sizeHint of spacer in Preferences → Behavior.
  • Hide/disable some options on Wayland.
  • Put the dropdown window on the active screen under Wayland.
  • Added “scope” to the layer window on Wayland.
  • Made modal dialogs stay in front of dropdown window on Wayland.
  • Put font dialog in front of Preferences dialog on Wayland (and draw a border around it).
  • Make font dialog remain in front of Preferences dialog on certain X11 WMs.
  • Made the dropdown window a tool window under X11.
  • Set the dropdown minimum size to 25%.
  • Better wording for the current terminal section in preferences.
  • Removed app transparency (terminal transparency exist).
  • Changed “File” to “Session” on the menubar.
  • Guarantee that tabs position is between 0 and 3.
  • Removed a wrong style sheet from dropdown mode.
  • Ignore presets (subterminal creation) with -e option.
  • Improved desktop files.
  • Fixed shortcuts for switching subterminals with presets.
  • Fixed shortcut setting with a profile.


A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.