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LXQt is a desktop environment built on Qt which derives from Razor-qt and LXDE components which were ported to Qt. While development is mainly focused on LXQt, the GTK 2 version of LXDE will see continued development.

## Installation

First, install and configure Xorg. Then, install the lxqt group and an icon theme (e.g. breeze-icons or oxygen-icons).

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

- nm-tray — A simple Qt based frontend for NetworkManager.

  https://github.com/palinek/nm-tray || nm-trayAUR

- SDDM — The recommended display manager for LXQt.

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

- A screen locker, if needed. For example, slock or XScreenSaver. Both are confirmed to integrate with LXQt, others may too.
  - If you are using LightDM as your display manager, you can use light-locker.
  - If you want to disable screen locking upon suspend/sleep it is under LXQt > Preferences > LXQt Settings > Session Settings > Lock screen before suspending/hibernating checkbox.
    Tip: LXQt by default uses xdg-screensaver from xdg-utils for screen locking which only works with XScreenSaver and xautolockAUR in LXQt session. A different custom screensaver can be set in Session Settings.
- For audio support, see General recommendations#Sound system.
- Some LXQt panel plugins require extra packages to function, check the optional dependencies for lxqt-panel.

## Starting the desktop

### Using xinit

Append the following line to Xinitrc:

    ~/.xinitrc

    exec startlxqt

### Graphical login

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

## 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 `/usr/share/lxqt`.

### Screen Brightness

If you find that LXQt uses screen contrast control instead of screen brightness control for the screen brightness keyboard shortcuts, you can change the command to use xbacklight instead under the LXQt configuration center > shortcut keys

    xbacklight -inc 10
    xbacklight -dec 10

If you are using the Intel kernel modesetting driver xbacklight will not work, but you can use the following command instead

    pkexec lxqt-backlight_backend --inc
    pkexec lxqt-backlight_backend --dec

You may need to create two scripts for screen brightness up and down and point the keyboard shortcut to the path of the scripts for it to work.

Another way to change screen brightness is to use brightnessctl

    brightnessctl -d intel_backlight set +5%
    brightnessctl -d intel_backlight set 5%-

### Panel widgets

If you cannot add the CPU and System Statistics widgets to the panel, make sure libstatgrab and libsysstat are installed.

### Use a different window manager

LXQt presents a dialog to pick the preferred window manager at the first login. After that, you can specify a different window manager to use with LXQt via Session Settings, `lxqt-config-session`; or by editing `~/.config/lxqt/session.conf`. Change the following line:

    window_manager=current_window_manager

to a window manager of choice:

    window_manager=your_window_manager

### Wayland Session

To enable the experimental Wayland session lxqt-wayland-session has to be installed. This will enable under Session Settings the settings for the compositor and the screensaver under Wayland.

Supported compositors are hyprland, labwc, niri, kwin, river, sway and wayfireAUR. For other compositors manual configuration is needed, as the compositor needs to start lxqt-session.

Supported screensavers are hyprlock, swaylock and waylock. If kwin_wayland is used the command in Session Settings needs to be set to loginctl lock-session to use its screen locker.

Choose LXQt (Wayland) from the menu in a display manager which supports Wayland. The LXQt Wayland Session can be started from console directly with startlxqtwayland.

### Autostart

To have applications start on login, click the main menu from the LXQt > Preferences > LXQt Settings > Session Settings. Alternatively, this can be launched with:

    $ lxqt-config-session

From this window, click on AutoStart on the left side. Here you can add a new application to either the global autostart (launched in all sessions implementing the XDG Autostart specification) or your local autostart (labelled LXQt Autostart). For each item you add, `lxqt-config-session` will create a Desktop entry (.desktop file) in the appropriate XDG Autostart directory.

The distinction between "Global Autostart" and "LXQt Autostart" does not depend on the directory in which the corresponding .desktop file is located, but rather on the `OnlyShowIn` setting. If it is `OnlyShowIn=true`, it is considered an "LXQt Autostart". Furthermore, if `X-LXQt-Module=true`, the item is not shown in `lxqt-config-session`.

### Set-up environment variables

Environment variables for LXQt session can be defined in Session Settings.

### Editing the Application Menu

It is possible to edit menu entries by editing their .desktop files stored in `/usr/share/applications/lxqt-*.desktop` files. See Desktop entries.

## Tips and tricks

### Screen Compositor (x11)

You can add a compositor like picom to autostart applications with a command like the following

    picom --vsync -r 12 --no-fading-openclose -b

### Customizing Leave

One can customize the options available under Leave simply by copying the respective package provide `.desktop` file to `~/.local/share/applications` and modifying it to contain the `NoDisplay=true` directive. Reference: #876.

Complete list of files to consider masking include:

    lxqt-hibernate.desktop
    lxqt-leave.desktop
    lxqt-lockscreen.desktop
    lxqt-logout.desktop
    lxqt-reboot.desktop
    lxqt-shutdown.desktop
    lxqt-suspend.desktop

Example: remove hibernate option.

    $ mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications
    $ sed '/OnlyShowIn/aNoDisplay=true' </usr/share/applications/lxqt-hibernate.desktop >~/.local/share/applications/lxqt-hibernate.desktop

## Troubleshooting

### Desktop icons are grouped together

When moving icons on the desktop it is possible to place them a bit too close to each other making them connected. If unable to separate them Stop Desktop from Session Settings, remove `~/.config/pcmanfm-qt/lxqt/desktop-items-0.conf` and Start Desktop again.

### Run LXQt with xrdp

Running LXQt with xrdp for remote login has the benefit of being fast and convenient, while minimizing resource consumption on the server. Setting up xrdp is rather painless, and only requires a user to adjust the `~/.xinitrc`. Since LXQt appears to rely on some D-Bus service functionality, that file should have the following line at the end [1]:

    exec dbus-run-session -- startlxqt

## See also

- LXQt homepage
- LXQt development
- LXQt on deviantART
- LXQt wiki on GitHub

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- Desktop environments