# LXQt

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In early 2013, Hong Jen Yee "PCMan" started porting LXDE components to Qt. The first preview of LXDE-Qt was released on July 3rd, 2013. On July 21st, it was announced that Razor-qt (a desktop similar in design to LXDE) and LXDE were merging.

The result is LXQt, a desktop built on Qt which partly uses Razor-qt and LXDE components. While development is mainly focused on LXQt, the GTK+ 2 version of LXDE will see continued development. The final release of Razor-qt is 0.6.0.

## Installation

Install the lxqt group.

You also need an icon theme to be installed. The default one is Oxygen, which can be installed with the oxygen-icons package.

For additional functionality, you may wish to install the following:

- LXImage-Qt — Image viewer and screenshot tool for LXQt.

  https://github.com/lxde/lximage-qt || lximage-qtAUR

- ObConf-Qt — The Qt port of ObConf, the Openbox configuration tool.

  https://github.com/lxde/obconf-qt || obconf-qt-gitAUR

- QTerminal — Lightweight Qt-based terminal emulator.

  https://github.com/qterminal/qterminal || qterminalAUR

- SDDM — The recommended display manager for LXQt.

  https://github.com/sddm/sddm || sddm

## Starting the desktop

### Graphical login

Choose LXQt Desktop from the menu in a display manager of choice.

### Using xinit

Append the following line to Xinitrc:

    exec startlxqt

## Configuration

LXQt in general tries to provide GUI applications to change its settings. Configuration files are in `~/.config/lxqt`. This directory is initialized automatically. The default configuration for new users is found in `/etc/xdg/lxqt`.

### Replace the default window manager

While Openbox is the default window manager for LXQt, you can specify a different window manager to use with LXQt via the Session Settings, or by editing `~/.config/lxqt/session.conf`. Change the following line:

    window_manager=openbox

to a window manager of choice:

    window_manager=your_window_manager

## Suggested applications

As LXQt is a lightweight desktop, a plain install will not provide many desktop applications. It is left to the user to choose what applications they wish to install. The Razor-qt wiki has a page which lists of number of useful Qt applications that you may wish to install. Also see the List of applications page for a comprehensive list of applications available in Arch.

## See also

- LXQt homepage
- LXQt development
- LXQt on deviantART

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- Desktop environments