LXQt 0.9, the lightweight desktop environment (merge between LXDE and Razor-qt), was released this Sunday. The new release drops Qt4 and now requires Qt5.
Besides enforcing Qt5, LXQt 0.9 comes a new LXQt Frost theme, lots of UI and internal polishing and several new features. See the official release note.
Install / Upgrade LXQt 0.9 in Ubuntu:
For (L)Ubuntu 14.04, (L)Ubuntu 14.10, and upcoming (L)Ubuntu 15.04 users, LXQt 0.9 has been made into PPA. Just follow below steps to install or upgrade it.
1. Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run command to add lubuntu daily build PPA:
LXQt, the next generation of LXDE, has just reached release 0.8.0, which brings full Qt 5 compatibility, two beautiful new themes, and a lot of new features.
LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects.
According to the release note, LXQt 0.8.0 brings below changes:
Full Qt 5 support. Run cmake with -DUSE_QT5 to enable it.
New component: lxqt-admin. This brings an optional set of basic admin tools such as configuration for date & time as well as users and groups.
New theme: Plasma Next. Based on KDE Plasma Next theme.
New theme: Dark Alpha, by Inti Alonso.
Much improved support for multiple displays.
Support for RGBA transparency if compositing is available.
lxqt-config-randr has been removed. It has been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor.
pcmanfm-qt: Support single-click to activate items
pcmanfm-qt: Support drag & drop on the desktop
pcmanfm-qt: Implement integration with the ark archive manager
pcmanfm-qt: Improve readability in icon view
lxqt-panel: Support reordering of taskbar buttons
lxqt-panel: Support “urgency” hint
lxqt-panel: Add support for OSS in volume control, if available
lxqt-powermanagement: Improved compatibility with systemd/logind
Integrate with compton if available (disabled by default)
Add support for setting a default UI font
Lots of performances improvements.
Lots and lots of bugfixes.
How to install LXQt in Ubuntu:
A daily build PPA is available in ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily, so far it supports Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run below commands one by one to add the PPA and install LXQt session:
The first release of LXQt, the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, has been announced a few hours ago. It is the product of the merge between the LXDE-Qt and the Razor-qt projects: A lightweight, modular, blazing-fast and user-friendly desktop environment.
The LXDE and Razor-qt teams are proud to announce LXQt 0.7.0, the first release of LXQt, the Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment. This beta release is considered a stable continuation of the Razor desktop.
It has been almost a year since the Razor-qt project and the LXDE-Qt project decided to merge. Since then, the LXQt desktop has been under active development by 13 developers and dozens of contributors and
translators.