{"id":4093,"date":"2014-10-14T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2014-10-20T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T14:11:29","slug":"lxqt-0-8-0-released-with-full-qt-5-compatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/10\/lxqt-0-8-0-released-with-full-qt-5-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"LXQt 0.8.0 Released with Full Qt 5 Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE_propose-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/LXDE_propose-logo.jpg\" alt=\"LXQt DE\" width=\"260\" height=\"222\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2604\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lxqt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">LXQt<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lxqt-session.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lxqt-session.jpg\" alt=\"lxqt-session\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lxqt-session.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/lxqt-session-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the release note, LXQt 0.8.0 brings below changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full Qt 5 support. Run cmake with -DUSE_QT5 to enable it.<\/li>\n<li>New component: lxqt-admin. This brings an optional set of basic admin tools such as configuration for date &#038; time as well as users and groups.<\/li>\n<li>New theme: Plasma Next. Based on KDE Plasma Next theme.<\/li>\n<li>New theme: Dark Alpha, by Inti Alonso.<\/li>\n<li>Much improved support for multiple displays.<\/li>\n<li>Support for RGBA transparency if compositing is available.<\/li>\n<li>lxqt-config-randr has been removed. It has been replaced by lxqt-config-monitor.<\/li>\n<li>pcmanfm-qt: Support single-click to activate items<\/li>\n<li>pcmanfm-qt: Support drag &#038; drop on the desktop<\/li>\n<li>pcmanfm-qt: Implement integration with the ark archive manager<\/li>\n<li>pcmanfm-qt: Improve readability in icon view<\/li>\n<li>lxqt-panel: Support reordering of taskbar buttons<\/li>\n<li>lxqt-panel: Support &#8220;urgency&#8221; hint<\/li>\n<li>lxqt-panel: Add support for OSS in volume control, if available<\/li>\n<li>lxqt-powermanagement: Improved compatibility with systemd\/logind<\/li>\n<li>Integrate with compton if available (disabled by default)<\/li>\n<li>Add support for setting a default UI font<\/li>\n<li>Lots of performances improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Lots and lots of bugfixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>How to install LXQt in Ubuntu:<\/h5>\n<p>A daily build PPA is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~lubuntu-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/lubuntu-daily\" target=\"_blank\">ppa:lubuntu-dev\/lubuntu-daily<\/a>, so far it supports Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal and run below commands one by one to add the PPA and install LXQt session:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lubuntu-dev\/lubuntu-daily\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get upgrade\n\nsudo apt-get install lxqt-metapackage lxqt-session lxsession<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, log out or restart. When you&#8217;re at the Unity Greeter choose log in with a LXQt session.<\/p>\n<p>(Optional) To remove this Desktop Environment, run below command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove lxqt-metapackage lxqt-session && sudo apt-get autoremove<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[906,1072],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-lxde","tag-lxqt"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}