LXQt 1.2 Released With Preliminary Wayland Session Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: LXQt 1.2 Released With Preliminary Wayland Session Support

LXQt 1.2 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this lightweight, open-source desktop environment that currently targets the Qt 5.15 LTS toolkit...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-1.2-Released

[petete]

Does it use kwin, something else, or did they roll their own compositor?

[Toggleton]

Does it use kwin, something else, or did they roll their own compositor?

Sounds to me as they have tested the Modules under other Wayland compositors and fixed Problems. Guess they have not chosen what compositor they want to use https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10

[birdie]

So, 14 years after Wayland was penned (10 years for Weston), we should soon have a third DE for it? Amazing speed! Much progress!

[deltragon]

The PR that is mentioned in the release notes is here:
It does sound like the OP has a working setup with lxqt-session+wayland, but no details are given in the PR.
This sounds more like "one step towards wayland support in one component" and less like "lxqt now supports wayland (preliminary)".

[deltragon]

The PR that is mentioned in the release notes is here:
It does sound like the OP has a working setup with lxqt-session+wayland, but no details are given in the PR.
This sounds more like "one step towards wayland support in one component" and less like "lxqt now supports wayland (preliminary)".
(reposted because the link was lost)

[dragon321]

Does it use kwin, something else, or did they roll their own compositor?

I guess they don't have enough manpower to write their own compositor from scratch. They probably will be relying on KWin or wlroots based compositors. I played with WayFire some time and it seems it's pretty solid compositor with relatively low hardware requirements. I don't know how well it can work for full desktop but if it can then it would be a solid choice.

[TemplarGR]

So, 14 years after Wayland was penned (10 years for Weston), we should soon have a third DE for it? Amazing speed! Much progress!

There is Sway too, although not a full blown DE. Still, this comment of yours, like most others, is just pure FUD. Every single large software project takes years after its specifications are "penned" in order to materialize, you just never see the final result until it is ready especially in closed source software. Windows 11 weren't "penned" a year ago, you know.... Wayland, being such a large and critical component of the Linux Desktop, was fast enough.

[Weasel]

There is Sway too, although not a full blown DE. Still, this comment of yours, like most others, is just pure FUD. Every single large software project takes years after its specifications are "penned" in order to materialize, you just never see the final result until it is ready especially in closed source software. Windows 11 weren't "penned" a year ago, you know.... Wayland, being such a large and critical component of the Linux Desktop, was fast enough.

"Large"?

That shit is more stripped of features than an old 1 button Apple mouse.

[user1]

"Large"?

That shit is more stripped of features than an old 1 button Apple mouse.

Yeah, "large" is not the correct way to call it when even the most elementary protocols take literal years to get merged.