After 6 months of development, the LXQt 2.4.0 desktop environment (Qt Lightweight Desktop Environment) has been released, continuing the development of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects.<\/p>\n
The LXQt interface follows the ideas of classic desktop organization but brings modern design and methods that increase usability. LXQt is marketed as a lightweight, modular, fast, and user-friendly environment that embodies the best features of LXDE and Razor-qt. The code is available on GitHub and is distributed under the GPL 2.0+ and LGPL 2.1+ licenses.<\/p>\n
Pre-built versions are expected for Ubuntu (LXQt is offered by default in Lubuntu), Arch Linux, Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia, FreeBSD, ROSA, and ALT Linux.<\/p>\n
LXQt 2.4.0 mainly includes bug fixes and code cleanup, as well as a number of useful enhancements. Some new features and adjustments have already been added in point releases of many components since November.<\/p>\n
The required versions of Qt have not changed, so it is still possible to assemble the environment in Debian \"Trixie\" and its derivative distributions.<\/p>\n
In the save dialog, the base name is now automatically highlighted in the \"File name\" field, allowing immediate renaming of the file.<\/p>\n
In Wayland, consistent visibility of desktop elements is ensured when using multiple screen mode (now separate settings for \"Hide desktop elements\" can be assigned for each monitor).<\/p>\n
Other minor fixes and improvements have been made.<\/p>\n
A separate monitor power-off timeout has been added for both AC and battery operation.<\/p>\n
Unnecessary options have been removed from dropdown lists.<\/p>\n
The overall layout of interface elements in power management settings (LXQt powermanagementsettings) has been improved.<\/p>\n
The volume plugin now has a horizontal orientation and can display all available sound receivers. The default receiver volume can easily be adjusted using the mouse wheel or touchpad scroll on the icon in the panel.<\/p>\n
A new volume panel plugin has been added.<\/p>\n
Changes already included in version 2.3.3:<\/p>\n
The overly strict checking of alternative icon themes in Qt 6.11 has been fixed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
The filter in the \"Stylish Menu\" now prioritizes lines that start headers: for example, entering \"fir\" will always show \"Firefox\" as the first result.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
In Wayland, keyboard shortcut selectors in the panel menu have been disabled, and a hint on how to configure them has been added.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
The issue with automatic hiding when dragging windows over the Task Manager and Show Desktop has been resolved.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Session settings for X11 and Wayland have been separated. The latter is displayed only when the lxqt-wayland-session package is installed.<\/p>\n
The main menu can now be opened in Wayland \u2014 you need to add the keyboard shortcut for lxqt-qdbus openmenu in the compositor settings.<\/p>\n
The built-in calculator can now be launched by entering a number at the beginning of the line, not just after the equals sign.<\/p>\n
Temporary notifications (e.g., song titles from media players and similar) are no longer saved when 'Do Not Disturb' mode is active.<\/p>\n
An access portal (org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Access) has been added.<\/p>\n
The behavior of custom tab names has been improved.<\/p>\n
You can now add a keyboard shortcut for the lock button (i.e., 'keep open') in windowed mode.<\/p>\n
Fixed the bug in bookmark file creation when adding new profiles.<\/p>\n
The 'Nord' theme has been added.<\/p>\n
Fixed the disappearance of 'Open\/Copy link' items in the context menu.<\/p>\n
Fixed the URL template \u2014 previously, URLs with closing parentheses would lead to a 404 error.<\/p>\n
Implemented highlighting of all matches during search and improved the highlighting code.<\/p>\n
Several more code fixes and improvements have been made.<\/p>\n
Added implementation of the $XDG_STATE_HOME directory.<\/p>\n
Fixed the handling of NotShowIn=LXQt in .desktop files.<\/p>\n
Added support for logging out through SystemdProvider.<\/p>\n