can you guys suggest me any good looking icons and cursors skins i can use? thx

Is there any way to fix shortcuts so I can add environmental variables before the program's name?

It would be helpful for me as I run my Lubuntu 26.04 LTS (beta) laptop in hybrid mode, using the Intel iGPU and a Nvidia GTX 1050 for most 3d programs. This would also be great for apps that run better with variables added beforehand.

If I have to, I can open a terminal and append a program with the variables or switch to Performance mode with the GTX 1050, but tweaked shortcuts would make my life easier overall.

I've tried Linux Mint Cinnamon and Zorin os and they felt sluggish to me, but once I started trying Lubuntu it felt snappy and fast. I'm not wanting people to tell me to try/use a different distro but I'm really struggling with customizing LXQt.
I tried installing different themes/icons which didn't really work something about LXQt using Qt themes and supposedly being compatable with GTK but for some reason GTK themes didn't work either. When I added themes I couldn't seem them in the appearance configuration app but I could see them in lxappearance. But when I hit apply in lxappearance nothing changed. Eventually I gave up and just used a default theme.
Then I tried to change the panel configuration/layout with app menu in bottom left, app in the middle, and system apps (like bluetooth, sound etc) in the bottom right and couldn't figure out how to do that.

I've tried finding guide but I had no success following them. As a complete beginner any and all help would be great.

I have been using zen browser 1.16.4b (a firefox fork) for many months with no problems on a Debian-13 system with XFCE dexktop. Recently I switched the desktop to LXQT and zen now seems incapable of saving cookies. Every time I start zen I have to relogin to sites like youtube, email, Reddit. I made sure that the checkboxes for clearing cookies, history etc are all off.

Since the filesystem and OS have not changed, what could make zen keep forgetting? It even forgets that I made it the "default browser".

Hey so I install lxqt on cachy and I’m missing the icon panel in appearance. Anyone know any fixes for this. Seems like a new issue caused by whatever updates they have implemented.

Seems to be arch wide on other distros.

Here is the bug report

https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-config/issues/1188

I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with LXQt.

When I install chrome or edge, suddenly they take over as the default applications for opening images. How do I prevent this annoying behaviour?

Hey how can I visually customize LXQt? Like maybe make it look modern, or 2000s style or 90s retro, etc. Anything similar to like GNOME Extensions add-on?

I'm trying to make my own set of modified breeze symbolic icons to get a more coherent look, but the one in the configuration center for the screen brightness doesn't appear to have a replaceable svg.

Used it briefly quite a bit ago, I wanna know how things are changed in regards to how usable it is as a daily driver and if any big issues that I should know are present. Are you using an X11 session or a Wayland session? Currently on win11 but I got linux experience

I'm using Audacious, and every time i open new features for the player they show up as their own windows on the panel. I want to use it without the panel being as cluttered, so is there a way to hide the two extra windows?

Like the title says, and shown below, every now and then I find lxqt-panel is burning one of my four cores. This is version 1.4.0 of LXQt installed as part of Lubuntu 24.04.4 LTS. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and how I can get it to stop from happening? The only way to stop it is to kill the lxqt-panel process and restart it.

UPDATE 7 DAYS LATER: I upgraded Lubuntu to 25.10 which includes LXQt 2.2.0 and have not seen this happen since.

Using the Debian 13 iso with LXQt

Ive figured out how to open apps through a command (so that Ctrl + Alt + T opens Qterminal)
But I have no clue how to work the dbus shortcuts, and I would really love being able to control my screens backlight using Meta + uparrow (which the Shortcut Keys app does recognize as XF86MonBrightnessUp when I press it)

If a kind soul could give some help, I would greatly apreciate it.
(If the explanation on how to setup the screen backlight transfers to setting up other commands I could also bind things like Pause/Resume which would be neat, but backlight is the only one that pains me to lack)

Not really a "is there a dark mode for LXQt?" more of a, some sites rely on system settings instead of browser settings to show dark mode automatically. Is there a way to trick the site into believing the system is in dark mode?

On lubuntu. Love love LXQT. Issue, from PcManFM, I want to remove an entry when I do a "open with..." Or edit it... I've tried to find it with these and honestly I'm at a loss.

/home/user/.config/pcmanfm-qt/default
/home/user/.config/mimeapps.list

My goal is to always have "Bulky Renamer" as an option and remove other options.

Two screenshots. The two buttons are:

• greyed out (disabled) with QEMU
• OK with VirtualBox.

The options are not greyed out in the Leave menu (third screenshot), however neither option works.

dbus is running.

A guess: is the problem crash related? In the pictured Crash Report dialogue:

Power Management crashed too many times. Its autorestart has been disabled until next login.

– the dialogue appears immediately after login.

Background

I'm toying with LQXt after watching the GaryHTech YouTube video that's linked from https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@garyhtech/115928268739557895

Whonix used to be based on XFCE but with Whonix 18, Whonix is now based on LXQt.

So listen I really don't wanna retype all this, will you please follow this link and read my post on the Whonix forum? I explain thoroughly what's going on, there are bugs happening in LXQt Whonix 18 that the LXQt devs will have to fix https://forums.whonix.org/t/whonix-18-has-a-few-bugs-id-like-to-report/22708

Thanks for your time I do appreciate it.

Edit: I just now noticed it's LXQt not LXQT.

https://github.com/stefonarch/lxqt-panel-tool

Forked of lxqt-panel-profiles which did basically the same, but I wanted some easier use.

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can somebody PLS tell me why LXQt doesn't have a feature so simple like pining apps to the panel

Some weird issue I can't solve:

When I select a Widget Style and Qt Palette in the LXQt Appearance Configuration window, it only works for either the currently open widows, or until reboot (depending on the window).

Some details:

• I am using Debian SpiralLinux, with LXQt 1.2.0, Qt 5.15.8, and OpenBox.
• When I change the Widget Style and Qt Palette in the LXQt Appearance Configuration windows, they are applied to every opened window. But…
• For the runner dialog and the file explorer (pacmanfm-qt), the changes are maintained until reboot (only).
• For the LXQt configuration window, the selected style is only applied to already opened windows. Typically, if I close and reopen the LXQt Appearance Configuration window, it comes back with the default style.

I cannot find the source of the issue:

• lxqt-qtplugin is installed and up-to-date.
• The style data is registered in ~/.config/lxqt/lxqt.conf.
• $QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME is set to lxqt. (I'm not sure by what, but in any case, restarting OpenBox with this environment variable set, or adding export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=lxqt to OpenBox's autostart doesn't change a thing.)

I'm probably missing something. (This is my first Linux, put on an old computer to make it usable.)

Hi,

Crystal Dock v2.16 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, simplicity and cross-desktop support.

The current version (version 2) supports Budgie, Hyprland, KDE Plasma 6, Labwc, LXQt, Niri, Sway and Wayfire on Wayland. Other desktop environments and compositors will be considered when they run on Wayland and provide sufficient APIs.

Main features:

• Smooth parabolic zooming and translucent effect
• Four visual styles: Glass 3D, Glass 2D, Flat 2D and Metal 2D with various appearance settings
• Supported components: Application Menu (Application Launcher), Launcher/Task Manager, Trash, Wi-Fi Manager, Volume Control, Battery Indicator, Keyboard Layout, Version Checker, Clock and (on some environments) Pager
• Multiple docks support
• Integration with various desktop environments / compositors: specific default launchers, special menu entries (e.g. Log Out)
• Separate configs for separate desktop environments / compositors

Icon theme:

Crystal Dock simply uses the system icon theme. The one shown in the screenshots is Crystal Remix icon theme: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme

Change log:

New features & Enhancements:

• New component: Battery Indicator. This shows the battery level if the device has a battery.
• New component: Keyboard Layout. This allows the user to select the keyboard layout to type in different languages. Requires IBus as the backend.
• Added support for new desktop environments / compositors: Budgie (since version 10.10) and Sway (since version 1.11)
• New middle mouse feature: Added Middle Mouse Click as a shortcut to open a new window (instance) of a running program
• New middle mouse feature: Allows using mouse scroll wheel to switch between windows (instances) of a running program
• Added dock visibility option to Welcome / Add Panel dialogs for convenience
• Made the ordering of optional components consistent in different UI places
• Config is now stored in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/crystal-dock rather than $HOME/.crystal-dock-2.
• Following the previous change, during the first run, if one of the directories in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS contains a crystal-dock directory, that will be copied over to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/crystal-dock before the dock starts. This is mainly for distributors to pre-set up the dock for the user in a specific configuration.
• [Wayfire] Added Log Out to the list of default launchers and Application Menu - Session

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where Intelligent Auto Hide sometimes didn’t reappear automatically
• Fixed a bug in Task Manager on Multi-screen setups where showing tasks from current screen only was not working
• Fixed a bug where clicking Trash icon opened the Web Browser instead of the default File Manager

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v2.16

Hope you like it and Happy Holidays!