LXQt packs Wayland punch with 2.1 release
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LXQt 2.1 is the latest release of the lightweight Qt-based desktop used in Lubuntu – but this version has a significant edge over its rivals.
LXQt version 2.1 appeared last week, and this version has preliminary support for the Wayland display protocol. Although there are dozens of Linux desktops out there, very few of them support the new replacement for X.org. Depending on how you count, LXQt is only the third or fourth.
LXQt is a simple and resource-frugal Windows-style desktop environment for FOSS Unix-like OSes. It's the modernized successor to the older LXDE environment, which is no longer in active development – although multiple distributions still include it. The main differences are that while LXDE was written using the Gtk 2 toolkit, as once used in GNOME 2, MATE, Xfce, and others, LXQt replaced that with the C++-focused Qt toolkit. Although quite a few apps use Qt, in terms of FOSS desktops, about the only other project that uses Qt is KDE Plasma.