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LXQt 2.3 Desktop Environment Released with New Features and Enhancements (9to5linux.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/linux@programming.dev

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LXQt 2.3 has been released today as the latest stable version of the lightweight desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems, an update that brings new features and improvements.

Coming more than six months after LXQt 2.2, the LXQt 2.3 release introduces a new, more advanced Wayfire backend for the Wayland session, support for adjusting the screen backlight with the mouse wheel on the panel, and support for the ext-workspace-v1 protocol to the Desktop Switcher applet on the panel so that it works with more Wayland compositors.

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[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oooooooh... 👀

I just started using LXQT on one of my work computers, good timing!

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I JUST got done posting about LXQt rescuing old hardware earlier today, found out about this news, booted up my laptop to perform a Debian Trixie upgrade in preparation... only to find out that my Pentium M is too old to rescue. Debian dropped i386.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Awww, that's unfortunate... Are there any BSD flavors offering LXQT? by default? Maybe that'd be a reasonable alternative

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I didn't look too far into it yet. I know that Bookworm is good until 2026, though there is a big TBD on whether i386 is part of the 2028 LTS. I guess I have a minimum of another year to figure it out. Not that I do much with 2008 hardware to begin with.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Fortunately, Debian bookworm will get updates for several years to come.

Iirc, the problem with i386 is that many fundamental libraries and applications no longer officially support the architecture so the Debian team would have to do a lot more debugging.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

While it is good not to waste hardware, maybe you should grab the opportunity now that the windows addicts have to upgrade their hardware to "follow the light". They usually throw out boxes with bigger chips than a Pentium M.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

Slackware has 32bit Intel support :)