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Learn about vigilant mode.

The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 0.17.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment.

Highlights

General

  • LXQt terminates all child processes on exiting the session. This allows non-LXQt apps to save their last settings at the session end and also prevents rare exit crashes in some of them.
  • Creation time is fully supported by the file manager.
  • SVG icon sets are handled more efficiently and independently.
  • LXQt Power Manager has separate idle watchers for AC and battery and also an option to disable them when the active window is fullscreen.
  • LXQt Panel has an option for behaving like a dock, i.e., auto-hiding only on overlapping a window.
  • Translations are completely done through Weblate and are constantly updated for all components.
  • GitHub's Discussions section for LXQt is up and running. Asking questions, making suggestions and discussing ideas can be done most efficiently by using "Discussions". Also, the "matrix-telegram-IRC" bridged messenger has become possible.

LibFM-Qt / PCManFM-Qt

  • The creation time is fully supported.
  • An item is added to Tools menus to activate Admin mode provided by GVFS — for transferring files beyond user permissions but without a root instance. (NOTE: Admin is broken in GVFS 1.48.0; it will be enabled automatically whenever its bug is fixed by GVFS devs.)
  • Launchers can be created from Tools menu (and not only on Desktop).
  • Better opening of a mixed selection of files that have different mime types.
  • Natural keyboard navigation on Desktop.
  • File size limits for thumbnail creation are activated.
  • Blurred thumbnails with scale factors > 1 are fixed.
  • The localization of LXQt file dialog is enabled.
  • Various enhancements and fixes.

LXQt Panel

  • An option is added to auto-hide a panel only when it overlaps a window.
  • A problem is fixed in changing of world clock's time zone with mouse wheel.
  • The grouped task button popup is fixed in a special case.

QTerminal / QTermWidget

  • "Action after paste" is made clearer and its default is changed to "Scrolling to bottom".
  • Added 5 modes for background images. NOTE: Since background images are drawn differently, manual reconfiguration may be needed; see docs/configuration.md for more details.
  • Added an option to disable bracketed paste mode.

LXQt Power Management

  • Idle watchers of AC and battery are separated from each other.
  • An option is added to disable idle watcher when the active window is fullscreen.

LXImage Qt

  • Fitting images on navigating is made optional.
  • Thumbnail options are added to Preferences dialog.

LXQt Archiver

  • Disk images can be opened or extracted.
  • Window settings are remembered.
  • The side-pane is made horizontally scrollable.

libQtXdg

  • SVG icon sets are handled more completely and independently by using Qt's SVG renderer.
  • XTerm is added as a runtime dependency.

LXQt Desktop Notifications

The notification summary is always handled as plain-text.

LXQt Session

  • All child processes are terminated at the session end.
  • Openbox configuration is removed for the sake of WM agnosticism.

Qps

Fixed a crash on showing Qps' window if Qps is started minimized to tray.

Release Notes

Please see the release page of each LXQt component for its release note.

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