Last Thursday, April 23, Canonical launched the family Focal Fossa, among which was Lubuntu 20.04. It is one of the most popular operating systems to use the graphical environment featured in this article, and it came with v0.14.0. One day later, and it is already bad luck, the project He launched the first major update in over a year, a LXQt 0.15.0 which introduces major enhancements to one of the lightest graphical environments available for Linux.
To be honest, the bad luck is not so much if we take into account that the day of difference is not real; Lubuntu 20.04 released its beta with environment v0.14.0 three weeks earlier, but it would have been nice if LXQt 0.15.0 had arrived a month earlier. In any case, other distributions will be able to take advantage of the changes introduced in this release, such as a new file manager based on LibFM-Qt and used by PCManFM-Qt by default. Below you have the list of new features that have been introduced in LXQt 0.15.0.
Highlights of LXQt 0.15.0
- LibFM-Qt / PCManFM-Qt enhancements
- Mount passwords can be saved (temporarily or permanently) if present gnome-keyring.
- The "single window mode" is supported.
- More rich information on file tools.
- Multi-screen wallpaper support.
- The deletion time is added to the Trash.
- Thumbnails can be switched on the fly.
- Better keyboard navigation.
- Problems with remote folders have been fixed.
- LXQt file dialog has smarter extension handling
- Other improvements and many fixes.
- LXQt Archiver: new fully functional file manager based on LibFM-Qt and used by PCManFM-Qt by default.
- Improvements in LXQt Panel:
- A new plugin has been added to change the screen backlight.
- Now Desktop Switcher has an option to show only the active desktop.
- The menu search becomes smoother.
- Panel positioning is corrected with multiple displays.
- Added an option to Task Manager to move windows to next / previous virtual desktop with mouse wheel
- LXQt Configuration: Drag and drop screens has been improved and made easier in monitor settings.
- LXQt Power Management: Added an option to change the screen backlight when the screen is waiting.
- QTerminal and QTermWidget improvements:
- The Settings dialog is made compact and scrollable.
- A fixed custom size is allowed for QTerminal.
- Switching to index tabs is possible.
- An option is added for borderless state.
- The history can be sent to your editor.
- QTerminal works fine on macOS.
- The flickering at source change is fixed.
- Various other fixes and improvements
- LXImage Qt improvements:
- "Open with ..." has been added to the file menu.
- Keyboard shortcuts can be customized.
- You can configure the maximum number of recent files.
- Support for displaying the image outline.
- Other fixes.
- libQTXdg: SVG icons are defined with scale factors> 1, especially non-integer factors.
Interested users can download the source code in ZIP and TAR.GZ formats from this y this other link respectively.