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Third-party Apps

Once you've got LXQt running you may want to look for additional software complementing the desktop environment, in particular if you're new to LXQt, Qt desktop environments or even Linux altogether. So here's an overview what you may want to have a look at.
More comprehensive lists of apps can e. g. be found in the wikis of Linux distributions Arch Linux, Manjaro or Gentoo.

Display managers#

The display manager recommended to be used with LXQt are SDDM or greetd but any other display manager like GDM or LightDM is working, too.

Complementary tools geared towards LXQt#

A number of complementary tools exist providing features not included in the desktop environment itself (yet).

UI#

  • Crystal Dock - A dock for Wayland and X11, completely integrated with LXQt.
  • lxqt-panel-profiles - Backup and restore different panel configurations.
  • sddm-conf - GUI for editing SDDM configuration.
  • picom-conf - GUI configuration tool for Picom X composite manager

Networking#

  • cmst - QT GUI for Connman, Cmst provides a graphical user interface to control the connman daemon, including a tray icon.
  • nm-tray - Panel plugin (widget) to control NetworkManager, unlike its preexisting counterparts written in Qt.

Applications#

  • audacious - Advanced audio player
  • copyQ - Advanced clipboard manager
  • FeatherPad - Text editor with many features
  • fooyin - A customisable music player
  • gvfs - Trash support, mounting with udisks and remote filesystems for PCManFm-Qt
  • meteo-qt - Weather status information
  • mpc-qt - A clone of Media Player Classic reimplemented in Qt
  • nomacs - Image viewer
  • Qalculate - The ultimate desktop calculator
  • Qarma - Qt utility for displaying dialog boxes from shell scripts or command line.
  • Qbittorrent - Torrent client
  • QDirStat - Qt-based directory statistics. KDirStat without any KDE.
  • Qtilities - Qt Utilities collection
  • Qmmp - Qt based audio-player
  • Qlipper - Clipboard management.
  • Qpdfview - Pfd and document viewer
  • Quassel - Distributed IRC client
  • QVKbd - virtual keyboard written in Qt
  • Strawberry - Music Player
  • Trojita - IMAP e-mail client
  • vokoscreen - Screencast creator
  • Wallutils - Wallpaper daemon