Since the merge of the LXDE and Razor-Qt teams in July 2013, there has not been any releases to the public. After months of works, the merged product is in a good shape now. It’s quite stable and usable. So we are discussing about the possibility to make the first alpha release for the long […]

In the GTK+ world, we have many lightweight music players, such as Audacious. While migrating to Qt, some people might want a Qt-based alternative for use in LXDE-Qt. Fortunately, we have Qmmp. Here are screenshots from their website. They provides the old-school WinAmp-like skins, or you can install the qmmp-plugin-pack to get the foobar2000-like simple […]

The LXQt project is steadily developed. While the image viewer lximage-qt just got some polishing lately, the Qt port of PCManFM file manager also reaches a quite usable state. Some notable changes are: Add dir tree to the side pane Improved file popup menu Able to open the selected files with arbitrary apps Improved handling […]

The image viewer of LXQt (LXDE-Qt) has been improved much recently. Here is the latest screenshot. Here is a brief list of recent changes: Printing support added Thumbnail preview (the bottom pane on the screenshot) Built-in tool to take a screenshot Slide show support Improved fullscreen support Improved preference dialog File properties dialog added The […]

Since the original LXDE and razor-qt projects decided to merge the effort and work together on the same project, we formed lxde-qt, or lxqt for short. Some effort was made to merge existing codebases and components, but things are still in an early stage so there is no public release yet. For preview purpose, here […]

Since we’re using Openbox as our default window manager, we need a GUI way to configure it. Previously, we have a GUI config tool for OpenBox named obconf, which is based on gtk+ 2 and libglade. However, since we plan to use Qt, and gtk+ 2 is no longer officially supported by its upstream, a […]

After posting a preview screenshot for LXDE-Qt, I got quite a lot of feedback from various sources. Generally the responses from the users are positive, but there are also some people saying that LXDE is no longer lightweight. Please, in the free world we’re all friends and let’s not spread FUDs to hurt each other. […]

Many users have read about our recent Qt-related work in prior blog posts. The GTK+ version of LXDE is still under development, but we did some experiments with Qt, too. Now I have some things to show you. 🙂 Here is a preview screenshot for LXDE-Qt. At the bottom of the screen is lxpanel-qt, the Qt […]

As many people know, a Qt port of PCManFM is under heavy development. Although we released PCManFM-Qt 0.1 previously, it contains some bugs and memory leaks. Most of the issues are already solved in the latest source code in our online git repository and will be available in the next release. However, the new code […]

Since I started learning Qt recently, I noted some issues when trying to port Gtk+ programs to Qt. There are tons of tutorials for Gtk+ and Qt, but a guide for porting is lacking. Most of the articles comparing Gtk+ and Qt did not go into detailed issues people will encounter during coding. To help […]