LXQt

How to Enable Wayland in Lubuntu 26.04

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:03:00 +0200

Lubuntu 26.04 LTS doesn’t include (yet) the Wayland session. But if you want to make your hands dirty here’s what can easily be achieved. LXQt has dropped the “experimental” label for its Wayland session since version 2.3.0.

Labwc

labwc is in some way the successor of Openbox and therefor much similar in configuration and behavior. Install the following packages:

sudo apt install lxqt-wayland-session labwc swaylock

Open “Session Settings” and in the “Wayland Settings” select “labwc” as compositor and “swaylock” as lock commmand. Log out and select “LXQt (Wayland)” in the available sessions on the top. To tweak its settings ~/config/labwc/rc.xml is the main file to edit. Take a look at the documentation.

Labwc has also a GUI for its settings but no package is available yet. It can be compiled from source:

sudo apt install build-essential cmake libglib2.0-dev libxml2-dev qt6-base-dev-tools qt6-tools-dev
git clone https://github.com/labwc/labwc-tweaks.git
cd labwc-tweaks
cmake -B build -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -W no-dev
cmake --build build --verbose
cd build && sudo make install

Wayfire

Just install it alongside with Wayfire Configuration Manager:

sudo apt install wayfire wcm swaylock

niri

Latest niri from git can be installed using pacstall. Nothing more is needed except eventually swaybg for the background in the overview, so select “0” or “3” when asked. More than 2GB in /tmp is nedded to compile and it will take some time.

Hyprland


sudo apt install hyprland hyprland-qtutils hyprlock

Hyprland in 26.04 is shipped with version 0.53 and some configuration errors will be shown which can be fixed by downloading the updated configuration:

mkdir ~/.config/lxqt/wayland/
cd ~/.config/lxqt/wayland/
mv lxqt-hyprland.conf lxqt-hyprland.conf.orig
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxqt/lxqt-wayland-session/368b14e726b4b728aa502c9aaddc67bf6e7c15fe/configurations/lxqt-hyprland.conf

Sway

sudo apt install sway -swaylock --no-install-recommends

kwin-wayland

sudo apt install kwin-wayland systemsettings

Kwin’s configuration module may require more plasma packages. See also WM Integration Files.

Notes

Some panel popups aling to screen border instead of panel border (Qt issue), consider moving it to the top.
The clipboard manager “Qlipper” included supports Wayland only in its most recent version, so disable it under Wayland by editing it in Session Settings → Autostart → “Start only in X11”.

For Wayland install copyQ, add it to autostart and configure a shortcut for copyq show in the compositor.

If you switch between X11 and Wayland session consider to edit in ~/.config/autostart/ both “Screensaver” and “X Compositor” .desktop files, adding X-LXQt-X11-Only=true to start them only in the X11 session.

More information about the Wayland settings can be found in the LXQt Wiki.

Release LXQt 2.4.0

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:06:00 +0200

The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 2.4.0, the Lightweight and modular Qt Desktop Environment. We got quite a few good contributions in the last time, thanks to everyone!

Highlights

General

LXQt 2.4.0 brings mostly bugfixes and code cleanup but also some more nice improvements, while some new features and improvements were already included in the point releases of many components since November.

Required Qt versions have not changed, so building it on Debian “Trixie” and derivatives is still possible.

LibFM-Qt / PCManFM-Qt

The base name in “File name” in the save dialog is automatically highlighted now which allows immediate renaming of the file.
On Wayland the visibility of the desktop items with multi-screen desktop is consistent now (different “Hide Desktop Items” setting per each monitor).

And other small fixes and enhancements.

LXQt-Powermanagement

A separate monitor blanking timeout has been added both for AC and battery, some useless options got removed from the combo boxes and the UI got a better overall layout.

LXQt Panel

The volume plugin has now a horizontal layout and can display all available sinks and the default sink volume can be tuned easily with mouse wheel or touchpad scroll on the icon on the panel.

Changes included already in 2.3.3:

Fixed too strict parsing of alternative icon themes with Qt6.11.
The filter in “Fancy menu” prioritizes now starting strings of titles, e.g. “fir” will show always “Firefox” as first match.
On Wayland shortcut selectors in panel menus are disabled and a tooltip about how to configure it is added.
Fixed an issue with auto-hiding on dragging windows over Task Manager and Show Desktop.

LXQt Sessions

Settings for X11 and Wayland sessions have been separated.
The latter is still only shown when lxqt-wayland-session is installed.
The mainmenu can be opened now on Wayland too by adding a shortcut for lxqt-qdbus openmenu in the compositor settings.

LXQt Runner

The integrated calculator will start now also when a number is typed first, not only with the equal sign.

Notifications

Transient notifications (e.g. titles of songs from players and similar) are not saved anymore when “Do not disturb” mode is active.

xdg-desktop-portal-lxqt

An access portal has been added (org.freedesktop.impl.portal.Access).

QTerminal and QTermWidget

The custom tab name behaviour is improved.
Now a shortcut can be added for the lock button (aka keep open) of the dropdown mode.
The creation of bookmarks file with new profiles is fixed.
Added “Nord” theme,
Fixed disappearance of Open/Copy link actions in the context menu.
Fixed the URL pattern which made URLs with a closing bracket 404 when opened.
Implemented highlighting of all matches when searching and improved the code of highlighting.

And several other code fixes and enhancements.

Furthermore

Added $XDG_STATE_HOME directory implementation.
Fixed NotShowIn=LXQt handling in .desktop files.
Support logout from SystemdProvider.

Release Notes

Please see the release page of each LXQt component for its release note.

Release pcmanfm-qt 2.4.0

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:05:00 +0200

The LXQt team announces the release of pcmanfm-qt 2.4.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

Fixed closing tabs by middle clicking with Qt ≥ 6.11.
Removed redundant spacing for filter bar.
Removed redundant .ui tags.
Consistent visibility of multi-screen desktop items on Wayland.

A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.

Release qterminal 2.4.0

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:04:00 +0200

The LXQt team announces the release of qterminal 2.4.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

Improved custom tab name behaviour.
Use static QRegularExpressions
Support shortcut for lock button of dropdown mode.
Issue template updates; added screenshot to the README.
Fixed creation of bookmarks file with new profile.
ui file cleanup.
Updated translations.

A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.

Release lximage-qt 2.4.0

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:03:00 +0200

The LXQt team announces the release of lximage-qt 2.4.0. The release can be downloaded from Github.

Main changes:

Removed Imgur upload option (credentials were needed now).
Cleaned up some ui files.
Modernized code.
Updated translations.

A full list of changes is in the CHANGELOG file.