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Checkout all LXQt components at once by using git submodule. Discussions, Wiki and general issues are here. (by lxqt)

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paper		lxqt
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4	Mentions	40
-	Stars	1,559
-	Growth	1.7%
-	Activity	3.2
-	Latest Commit	3 days ago
	Language	Shell
-	License	-

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paper

Posts with mentions or reviews of paper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.

Arch /Surface Users - What's working and what's not?
3 projects | /r/archlinux | 9 May 2023

Anyway, I'm just curious how other Arch/Surface users are faring. What have you tried that works, and what doesn't? I've seen mention that there are DEs, like paperde, which is designed for touch screen access, and I'm curious if they offer a better experience. Lastly, please feel free to share any tips/recommendations.
Has anyone ever been able to figure out how to actually install PaperDE?
2 projects | /r/archlinux | 28 Mar 2022

PaperDE It's a small project I've been interested in for a very long time. I don't know how usable it is yet, but I'd really like to try it out. But there is like zero documentation on this thing. There's the official installation guide, but well it's really not an installation guide at all. I did all these things and the best result I managed to get was manually initiating a wayfire session(?) that sort of uses PaperDE except it's completely broken. I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong, but well with no real documentation it's impossibly difficult to find out what. Anyone here managed to figure this out? Cause I'm completely lost.
LXQt 1.0.0
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021

lxqt

Posts with mentions or reviews of lxqt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-13.

Does anyone think wayland will actually be the future?
2 projects | /r/linux | 13 Dec 2022
How can you run Wayland on LXQt ?
4 projects | /r/LXQt | 5 Sep 2022
With rise of wayland, are simpler window managers dying?
14 projects | /r/linux | 26 Aug 2022

LXQt: I think they are working on it but not sure how far along they have gotten https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10
How do I reliably install Void linux? I am following the handbook but running into issue
2 projects | /r/voidlinux | 6 Aug 2022

Upstream Documentation/Wiki (https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/wiki/ConfigLaunch)
More than ever, GNOME and Plasma are getting way ahead of other desktop environments
6 projects | /r/linux | 12 Apr 2022

MATE & LXQt already have partial Wayland support. Ubuntu MATE team is using Mir to run MATE on Wayland. Upstream LXQt wants to use KWin but a developer already runs LWQt on Mutter. Expect them on Wayland soon. Cinnamon is going to rebase muffin on a newer version of Mutter, which may bring Wayland support with it. With the move to CSDs, Xfce seems to also start work on Wayland support not too far away in the future. While Xorg will continue to thrive, the way to Wayland isn’t that convoluted anymore.

6 projects | /r/linux | 12 Apr 2022
LWQt Wayland DE Notification Geometry Demo
2 projects | /r/LXQt | 18 Jan 2022

As is plain from this and this, these efforts are in collaboration with upstream.
LWQt Wayland DE 2nd Demo
5 projects | /r/LXQt | 12 Jan 2022

I believe you better follow/star this: https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10
LXQt 1.0.0
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021

Some sort of bring-your-own-compositor adventure at the moment, if I'm reading this issue correctly [0].
The thread did mention PaperDE [1] however , which you might want to look at if you're interested in a lightweight Wayland + QT environment.
[0] https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt/issues/10

9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing paper and lxqt you can also consider the following projects:

docklike-plugin - A Dock-like Taskbar Plugin for XFCE

wayfire - A modular and extensible wayland compositor

mutter - Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter

polybar-themes - A huge collection of polybar themes with different styles, colors and variants.

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

dash-to-panel - An icon taskbar for the Gnome Shell. This extension moves the dash into the gnome main panel so that the application launchers and system tray are combined into a single panel, similar to that found in KDE Plasma and Windows 7+. A separate dock is no longer needed for easy access to running and favorited applications.

arewewaylandyet - Sources for https://arewewaylandyet.com

qtwayland - A toolbox for making Qt based Wayland compositors

lwqt-session - The LXQt session manager

adwaita-qt - A style to bend Qt applications to look like they belong into GNOME Shell

lxterminal - VTE terminal emulator written in GTK

cagebreak - Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison