On basis of SWAY, port of user environment LXQT, which supports Wayland, is developing

published The projects of the project lxqt-sway , which is engaged in porting the components of the user shell LXQT to work surrounded by SWAY and the composite manager using the WAYLAND protocol. In the current form, the project resembles a hybrid of two environment. LXQT settings are converted to the SWAY configuration file.

to perform operations such as changing the virtual desktop, separating and closing windows, additional menu are implemented, which allows you to simplify the control of windows and make the work more understandable to users who are accustomed to the classical window placement, windows, and not used in SWAY mosaic layout with control using the keyboard.

undertaken , but not yet completed, an attempt to portend the LXQT-Panel panel, which was tried to adapt to For SWAY using the Layer-SHELL-QT plugin from the KDE project. Instead of LXQT-Panel, LXQT-SWAY is currently offered its own simple panel yatbfw , written during the study of the protocol Wayland.


The implementation of Wayland in the main composition of LXQT until skids on the spot , despite Nevertheless, there is a separate project lwqt , the developing version of the LXQT shell based on Wayland, which uses the composite manager of the MUTTER and QTWayland QT module .

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