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The developers of the lightweight LXQt desktop environment have showcased some of the major changes coming to the LXQt 2.2 release, which is due in mid-April.
LXQt 2.2 promises to further improve the Wayland session introduced in the LXQt 2.1 release and flagged as experimental. In LXQt 2.2, the Wayland session will still be experimental, but it will let you set the default compositor and the screen locker by distribution or system-wide.
The Wayland session will also feature partially enabled input settings, man pages, and updated configuration files. Moreover, the LXQt Runner will allow width configuration, as well as screen settings and position for multi-monitor setups under Wayland.
Also, the LXQt Panel can be configured per monitor when using the Wayland session, monitor settings for kwin_wayland will now work if one or both screens are scaled, the dropdown QTerminal window has been improved under Wayland, and there’s now a shortcut handler using D-Bus.
LXQt 2.2 also promises to improve the QTerminal terminal emulator with a new “Activate on mouse over” setting for subterminals, cursor blinking, the ability to hide the mouse cursor with a timeout, reordered preferences panes, as well as fixes for text rendering and the prompt when closing the app while processes are running.
On top of that, the LXQt 2.2 desktop promises improvements for app transparency and font dialog on X11, colored text and a tooltip for the “Custom Command” widget in the LXQt Panel, support for exclude apps from showing up in the “Taskbar” widget, and better tab sizes with large texts for the PCManFM-Qt file manager.
Talking about PCManFM-Qt, the file manager received support for custom arguments when opening a directory in the terminal and the ability to clean up the filter bar with the Backspace key. The ScreenGrab screenshot utility has been improved as well in LXQt 2.2 with a new setting for notifications.
Of course, there will be many other changes across the board, especially bug fixes for a more reliable and stable LXQt desktop experience. As mentioned before, the final LXQt 2.2 release is expected sometime in mid-April 2025 if everything goes according to plan.
Last updated on March 11th, 2025 at 02:55 am
