The Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment

Release qterminal 2.5.0

The LXQt team announces the release of qterminal 2.5.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

  • Added OSC-8 hyperlink settings to properties.
  • Enabled QTermWidget’s new background image modes (filling, corners and tiles).
  • Implemented visual bell and added an option for it.
  • Added a feature for maximizing the current sub-terminal.
  • Optionally notify the user when the output stops in a minimized window (“silence notification”).
  • Enhanced inter-process communication.
  • Fixed performance issues after opening and closing a lot of tabs.
  • Polished the “Handle history…” feature.
  • Delay startShellProgram() until the layout of QTabWidget and the initial terminal size are set.
  • Made the exit dialog window-modal.
  • Infrastructure changes to facilitate automatic stdout split à la cat9.
  • Removed codes belonging to Qt < 6.7.
  • Silenced layershell and QFile warnings.
  • Removed translations CMake artifact.
  • Re-implemented QTermWidget::setSize to allow CSI;18t (size request).


A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.