LXQt 0.17 is the first update to this desktop environment for 2021. LXQt is the lightweight Qt desktop born out of the merger of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects.
Over last November's LXQt 0.16 release, version 0.17 brings a number of improvements but nothing too shocking or original with many of the features being found already on other Linux desktops. Among the LXQt 0.17 highlights are:
- LXQt will terminate all child processes when exiting the session.
- The LXQt file manager supports showing the creation tile of files when running on supported kernels / file-systems.
- Better SVG icon handling.
- The LXQt Panel can now behave like a dock, namely to auto-hide a panel when it overlaps a window.
- Improved keyboard navigation on the desktop.
- LXQt Power Management now has an option to disable the idle watcher when the active window is in full-screen mode.
- LXQt Archiver now supports opening and extracting disk images.
Source downloads and more details on the LXQt 0.17 changes over on the project's GitHub .