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Some Numbers About LXQt for Those Who Are Curious
After the initial release of LXQt, I found that there is a FAQ. How’s the memory usage? Will it become a bloated memory hog because of Qt? Here are some numbers for you. My test environment is the latest Debian stable installed in VirtualBox with 512 MB of RAM and 1 CPU core assigned. After […]
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LXQt Got Initial FreeBSD support.
Recently, PC-BSD developers just reminded us that there is an unmet need for a Qt desktop for BSDs. So, here you go. 🙂 As stated earlier, we’re not really Linux-centric. We support Linux better simply because we’re Linux users. Now with some help from several FreeBSD users, things can be different. I installed FreeBSD 10 […]
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The First Alpha Release of LXDE-Qt (or LXQt) is in Preparation
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 […]
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3 Tips to improve the CPU usage of Qmmp music player
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 […]
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PCManFM-Qt Reaches a Quite Usable State
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 […]
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LxImage-Qt image viewer
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 […]
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PCManFM 1.2.0 and libfm 1.2.0 released!
Hard at work and huge changes were served. Below you’ll find the NEWS files for PCManFM and libfm, usually we post the git log and link the commit IDs to the log but that is not possible this time, the NEWS files combined are 4800 words! pcmanfm-1.2.0.tar.xz, sha1: d2a72a25d1f5a9fd6a245bfe5a8723969fa27e9a libfm-1.2.0.tar.xz, sha1: f4da9f73111364291501bfc752c50d43a17f17cf PCManFM – full […]
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PCManFM/libfm string freeze and beta period
An unusual update. Andriy posted a note to the pcmanfm development list about the upcoming release of PCManFM and libfm components. He has been hard at work closing bugs and adding features and in hopes to release in time for the next Ubuntu freeze we’ve now entered soft string freeze. This means that no new […]
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LXAppearance 0.5.5 released!
And not every day the release and log sync works as expected. The early testing did not reveal that we had a horrible bug in the settings dialog. This is the only real change since 0.5.4. lxappearance-0.5.5.tar.xz, sha1sum: 5497886d84bfdac0c18709e076b4acd96caba912 Changelog (except translations) 58b13aa – Fix crash: button id ‘enable_antialising’ not found in UI.
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LXAppearance 0.5.4 released!
Welcome to an important bugfix release of LXAppearance. There was a missing newline in the theme file created by the application and that file was then unusable. Another minor thing is that we’ve switched to xz as default compressions (for all components). lxappearance-0.5.4.tar.xz, sha1sum: e9b5f4704f2947aac5cec2bfbaeb376b548148ea Changelog (except translations) cc57437 – Correct spelling for “antialiasing”. f63c857 […]