I was always curious to explore LXQt desktop since the moment I heard about it for the first time. I have tried installing LXQt desktop in Fedora & Ubuntu releases by configuring third-party repositories. But my experience was always incomplete. Every time, there was something missing. Like entries in the application menu, desktop background ..etc. The Manjaro LXQt Edition, on the other hand, was over customized with a lot of colors and effects. I did n't want to use such a system in my daily life.
Recently, I saw someone shared a screenshot of Fedora 27 LXQt spin on facebook. I was quite desperate with my experience with recent Fedora Workstation releases because of it's poor quality and lack of stability. Still, I decided to give a try for the LXQt spin. To my surprise, the experience was quite impressing. Let's have a walk through various screens of Fedora 27 LXQt spin.
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The login screen in Fedora 27 LXQt spin. |
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LXQt Desktop in Fedora 27 spin. The desktop is completely empty by default. In live session, we can see the installer link here. |
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About LXQt Desktop. Fedora 27 LXQt spin is shipped with LXQt 0.11.x. The latest LXQt release at the moment is 0.12.x |
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The LXQt application menu. It is simple, compact & traditional |
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Despite of simplicity, LXQt application menu provides a search functionality with which we can search for applications. Though, there is one issue/unexpected thing here. The search entry persists even after closing the menu. Which is somewhat not convenient. |
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PCManFM file manager. The LXDE file manager ported to Qt. |
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QTerminal - A simple, multi platform supported terminal application. |
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Another mode of QTerminal. Terminal can be launcher as a dropdown application. |
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GUI based multitasking demonstration on LXQt Desktop. |
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The QupZilla browser. This browser is lightweight & disables advertisements by default. |
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The Dragon Video Player |
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Yarock Music Player |
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Featherpad - A Qt based simple text editor. |
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LXImage Viewer |
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KCalc |
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System resource usage on idle state. It takes only 237 MB to run Fedora 27 LXQt spin. While it takes almost 1 GB to run Fedora 27 workstation. |
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The LXQt Configuration Center |
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Appearance Settings |
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LXQt Appearance Configuration |
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Power Management Settings |
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Battery Info |
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Leave the sessions options in application menu |
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Shutdown confirmation |
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