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LXQt is a lightweight Qt desktop environment.
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It will not get in your way. It will not hang or slow down your system. It is focused
 on being a classic desktop with a modern look and feel. </p>

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<li>Modular components</li>
<li>Powerful file manager</li>
<li>Customize appearance everywhere</li>
<li>Panel(s) with many plugins and settings</li>
<li>Window Manager agnostic</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Applications</h3>

<ul>
<li>PcManFm-qt - File Manager</li>
<li>Lximage-qt - Image Viewer</li>
<li>QTerminal - Terminal Emulator</li>
<li>Qps - Process Viewer</li>
<li>Screengrab - Screen Capturer</li>
<li>LXQt-archiver - Archive Manager</li>
<li>LXQt-runner - Application launcher and calculator</li>
</ul>
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<p>LXQt is available for all major Linux and BSD distributions so you may just try it
out on your system or in a VM.<br>
More information about installing can be found in the
<a href="https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/">LXQt GitHub Wiki</a>.
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<p>
Historically, LXQt was the product of the merge between LXDE-Qt, an initial Qt
flavour of LXDE, and Razor-qt, a project aiming to develop a Qt based desktop environment.<br>
More on this topic can be found in the
<a href="https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/History">Wiki</a>.
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