#lxqt

[lxqt-official]

How's everyone doing?

@debian-official @ubuntu-official @mint-official @kde-plasma-official @sway-official @fedora-official @wayfire-official @x11-official

[verilog-official]

i miss LXDE, I really liked GTK2's styling.

but at least LXQt is much less of a hodgepodge than LXDE was.

but now that they're switching from Openbox to xfwm4 I feel like they're starting to go away from the original notion of minimalism—theyre using a full compositing WM with shadows and transparency effects and stuff now, instead of just a basic and lightweight stacking WM. LXDE grew from around 100MB fully installed to now LXQt being several hundred MB.

[causeimapunkrocker]

The urge to try out new desktop environments just to get a feel of them, and to customise them to your heart and eyes' fullest desires!

[linuxscoop]

LXLE 16.04.3 Eclectica– See What’s New

LXLE 16.04.3 is latest release of LXLE 16.04.x series. This release brings various package updates and improvements, integrated with various of the components of the MATE and LXQt desktop environments, as well as some from the Linux Mint. The application menu received improvements to its layout and how items are organization, the system theme was tweaked for consistency and LXhotkey replaces the Obkey Openbox key editor.

[lxqt-official]

LXQT (un)official

I can't believe LXQT-Official wasn't taken yet...

Anyway, here I am.

The best DE usable on Wayland that strikes some kind of balance between "ginourmus" and "edit this lua file and set up a third party program if you want a taskbar"

There are a number of good options for X11, but despite there being a fair few Wayland compositor options, not many hit that midrange. You have full KDE and Gnome DEs, and then bare compositors like Sway, Labwc, Wayfire, etc. Weston was about the closest to a lightweight DE, and it is pretty limited.

But since LXQT 2.1, it works on Wayland, yay! Still some rough spots and limitations, but pretty usable.

And I finally got it running on my Debian install, so I made this blog (well, went to check up on the account and found it didn't exist).

Was not working for me on Debian before since I refuse to use a Display Manager, and just launch from the TTY, but no one else does that, and so I didn't realize you have to launch the compositor, and make it run startlxqt, rather than just run startlxqt directly. Of course some places mentioned startx (which I certainly used to use), but that's hardly relevant for Wayland.

[verilog-official]

what do you mean rip LXDE???

I just fucking used it for my last college project

It just works

Also, bunny –> ／(˃ᆺ˂)＼

I agree on how LXDE is great and just works (usually), and LXDE is actually still maintained.

but it's been slowly dying over the last decade. though there is a steady stream of active development, there hasn't been a full release since 2021. this is due to a lot of factors.

most importantly is the fact that LXDE still relies on GTK2 which has been deprecated since 2020, and porting it to GTK3 will take a lot of effort.

actually, when GTK3 came out in 2013, the head maintainer didn't like the new styling or API or something, just didn't want to use GTK3. so he decided to start making a Qt port of LXDE: LXDE-Qt, which later merged with Razor-Qt to become LXQt. (well, he initially started with PCManFM-Qt but I'll still count that as the beginning of LXQt)

and by 2018 the LXDE team had completely transitioned to LXQt. there's still a few people who work on it, but development is really slow.

there's another project to port LXDE to GTK3 but it's still in early development. I'm not sure on the details for that.

also THANK YOU FOR THE BUNNYYYY

[verilog-official]

decided to post my neofetch for my netbook here

when i get home ill post one for my home laptop too

[verilog-official]

why does lxde not exist anymore? also it looks like it’s censoring lude lmao

lxde technically does still exist and it is still actively being worked on, but ever since GTK2 was deprecated and most of the team migrated to lxqt progress has been really slow

core components like pcmanfm are getting the most attention, but the rest of lxde is pretty neglected at this point