2.3.0

Now Desktop Switcher works with Wayland compositors that support ext-workspaces-v1 protocol (like Labwc, Niri, …), and a backend is specially added for Wayfire.

Also,

• Updated the button of Custom Command every time it receives output.
• Added support for structured output to Custom Command.
• Made the initial config file available outside LXQt.
• Activate Show Desktop plugin on drag-and-drop.
• Adjust backlight with mouse wheel on the button of backlight plugin.
• Fixed building with Qt 6.10 and C++20.
• Used locale-aware sorting in Fancy Menu and Main Menu.
• Added a workaround for a Qt regression that prevented plugin move indicators from being removed.
• Several other small enhancements and fixes.

2.2.2

Automatic showing of mount popup is disabled on Wayland to circumvent an old problem of QtWayland.

Also,

• Fixed the rare bug about permanent task-buttons under kwin_wayland.
• Support showing of current screen windows in the wlroots taskbar.
• Made searching for the backend in EVs case-insensitive.
• Added backend info to README.

2.2.1

The "Show Desktop" plugin works under Wayland compositors that are compatible with wlroots.

In addition:

• Workarounds are added for kwin_wayland's problems with showing desktop.
• The children of a window are minimized with it on kwin_wayland.
• Redundant attention demands (urgency hints) are removed under kwin_wayland.
• A rare DND crash is prevented in Task Manager under Wayland.
• Removed ancient QT_USE_XXXX variables and dropped QTX_LIBRARIES.
• Timezone switching with mouse wheel is made optional in World Clock.
• Added an icon for plugin-sensors.
• Code cleanup.

2.2.0

In addition to some code cleanup,

• Wayland screens are handled by using their names, not numbers.
• Added tooltip to plugin-dom.
• Prevent redundant writing to the config file on startup.
• Added an option for the text color of Custom Command.
• Corrected the order of focusing in config dialogs by reordering blocks in ui files.
• Updated manpage.
• Changed "desktop" to "screen" in Panel's config dialog.
• Enabled PageDown/PageUp for Fancy Menu.
• Removed menu-cache support.
• Removed debug messages for "UnknownProperty" errors in Status Notifier.

2.1.4

A few regressions are found and fixed in Task Manager.

Also, Task Manager supports exclusion list, and Custom Command plugin supports a configurable tooltip.

2.1.3

A series of Wayland bugs are fixed in this point release. They were about multi-screen setups as well as searching in Fancy/Main Menu with non-Latin keyboard layouts.

2.1.2

Fixed changing of desktop names under X11.

2.1.1

• Fixed destination dir of lxqt-panel_wayland.desktop to prevent packaging failure.
• Made auto-hiding on overlapping work under kwin_wayland. Also, made auto-hiding animation work on Wayland in general.

2.1.0

In addition to many fixes and workarounds, this release makes LXQt Panel's task-bar work on Wayland. Also, the desktop switcher works under kwin_wayland. Two Wayland back-ends are added: one for kwin_wayland, the other for compositors that are compatible with wlroots (but not necessarily based on it).

Also,

• Made horizontal wheel scrolling work with Custom Command.
• Made Fancy Menu filtering work with exec name.
• Added an option to reverse the order of tray items.
• Fixed closing of menu with "Meta" shortcut in Main Menu and Fancy Menu.
• Fixed problems related to Alsa in the volume plugin.

2.0.1

• Fixed a runtime failure in the plugin loader.
• Workaround for Removable Media plugin with a GLib-mounted encrypted volume.