Brings many updated components and technologies

Sep 25, 2016 22:40 GMT  ·  By

After being in development for the past eleven months, the next major release of the lightweight, Qt-based LXQt desktop environment has been officially released and is available for download.

That's right, LXQt 0.11.0 is finally here as a worthy upgrade to LXQt 0.10.0, which was announced back in November 2015 and is currently used in several GNU/Linux distributions. For those of you who are not in the loop with the latest LXQt news, we would like to remind them that the desktop environment wants to replace the GTK-based LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) sometime in the near future.

"The release took longer than desirable for various reasons, but preparations were made to improve the release management as a whole. Releases will take place more frequently in the future, both regular ones and point releases, backporting important fixes whenever it makes sense. Probably we will not introduce a fixed release schedule like once every six months though, as this wouldn’t fit the development of LXQt," said the devs.

Here's what's new in LXQt 0.11.0

Prominent new features of the LXQt 0.11.0 desktop environment include a much-improved user experience, the use of a specific configuration file (e.g. ~/.config/openbox/lxqt-rc.xml) when using LXQt under the Openbox window manager, multi-monitor support for the LXQt Panel, a new tool for adjusting the brightness of your display, revamped PCManFM-Qt file manager, and pavucontrol-Qt, a new tool to configure the PulseAudio sound system.

The LXQt 0.11.0 desktop environment is available for download right now via our website as a source archive that you'll need to compile on your GNU/Linux operating system, but it can also be found in the software repositories of many popular distros, including Ubuntu, Arch Linux, OpenSuSE, Debian, Fedora, OpenMandriva, Gentoo, Chakra, ALT Linux, and Mageia.