The Emerald icon theme is better but lacks GTK+ application support, the Paper icon theme is modern and flat looking, supports both Qt and GTK+ apps. Some other icon theme that match Breeze style and LXQt. Here's a list of 5 KDE icon themes, looks pretty descent with LXQt. Note: The default Breeze icon theme may not show folder icons properly in PCManFM file manager. There are many icon theme could be used with LXQt, but it's better to use a icon theme which fits nicely with Breeze style.

You can also use Qt5ct to change Qt5 application style. The new Breeze style is looks more smooth and flat compared to the previous Oxygen style. The Breeze theme suite is also available packed with Breeze icon theme and Breeze cursor theme, but this package have more unnecessary dependency, though you could give it a try. sudo apt-get install kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4 To install minimal Breeze widget theme, just install kde-style-breeze for Qt 5.x and kde-style-breeze-qt4 for Qt 4.x apps. Kwin has another inherent feature of improved screen tearing prevention with vsync.Įnjoy free shipping and One-Day delivery, cancel any time.

This will install kwin with little bit plasma-framework dependency. Sudo apt-get -no-install-recommends install kwin-style-breeze Sudo apt-get -no-install-recommends install kwin-x11 kwin-addons So lets install them, make sure you have enabled the main repositary in Debian testing, currently Stretch. If you're running Debian stable, currently Jessie, kwin 5 is not available, you've to go with the old kwin4 anyway. The kwin 5 is available in two backend, Xorg based kwin_x11 and latest wayland based kwin_wayland, the X11 based kwin is more matured and has lesser dependency. Kwin and LXQt fits perfectly, before KDE 5 kwin had lot of KDE related dependency, but now the kwin 5 is much more modular, requires much less dependency.

Lightweight Qt based applications for LXQt.

Changing the system style and window manager.

Lxqt vs kde