LXQt 2.0 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New
LXQt 2.0 adds Wayland support for more components, such as PCManFM-Qt file manager’s desktop module, LXQt Runner, and LXQt desktop notifications. LXQt Panel also features Wayland support for positioning the panel by using the “layer shell protocol.” Wayland compositors that support the “layer shell protocol” include LabWC, Wayfire, kwin_wayland, Hyprland, Sway, and others.
LXQt 2.0 is fully ported to the latest Qt 6 application framework to provide users with a more modern UI. However, this doesn’t mean Qt 5-based apps aren’t supported. This release also introduces a new default application menu for the LXQt Panel called Fancy Menu, featuring “Favorites”, “All Applications”, and improved search.
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LXQt 2.0 Desktop Environment Released, Here’s What’s New
Just over half a year after the previous 1.4 release, LXQt 2.0 has officially launched, bringing updates and improvements to this lightweight desktop environment powered by Qt.
But the big news is hidden under the hood. As we informed you just ten days ago, the LXQt developers have pulled out all the stops to make the desktop environment Wayland-compatible. Furthermore, this release transitions more components to Qt version 6.6 or higher.
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Lightweight LXQt 2.0.0 updates to same toolkit as KDE Plasma 6
Version 2.0 of the LXQt desktop updates its foundations to Qt 6, as also used in KDE Plasma 6 – but still has one foot in the Qt 5 past, to ease the transition.
As promised back in February, bang on schedule, LXQt 2.0.0 is out. This is an important update to one of the lightest full desktop environments for Linux, and moves most of the environment to the current Qt toolkit version 6. That's the same programming toolkit used in KDE Plasma 6 and paves the way for the forthcoming LXQt 6.1 to support Wayland alongside X.org.
Much like with KDE, the project was more or less compelled to update: Qt 5 is past its end-of-life and out of support now. As such, and much as with Plasma 6, the new release doesn't offer many major new features, although there's a new app-launch menu called the Fancy menu, with new Favorites and All Applications submenus.