STARTLXQTWAYLAND(1)

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version 0.4.1 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is the startlxqtwayland girlie 💖 — she's a script whose whole job is initializing and launching LXQt Wayland sessions. that's it, that's the vibe. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

startlxqtwayland

that's literally the whole thing bestie. no flags, no args, just vibes 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so startlxqtwayland is a shell script, and its whole main character energy is initializing and launching LXQt Wayland sessions. 🌈

her main tasks? okay, listen up:

  • exporting environment variables — and partly doing that after performing the corresponding checks, because she's responsible like that 🫶
  • launching the configured compositor, which is the one that then launches lxqt-session, aka the LXQt session manager 👑

she also copies the basic configuration file(s) over to $XDG_CONFIG_USER for the compositor that's configured in lxqt-config-session — but only if they're not already there, she's not gonna overwrite your stuff 💀 — and she tries to set the keyboard layout accordingly to $LANG. iykyk. ⌨️

you can run her straight from a tty if that's your thing, but fr fr she's usually invoked by display managers like SDDM or LightDM. ✨

display managers are out here making use of scripts like startlxqtwayland automatically, like they just know. 💅

and the info about which desktop environments are available? that comes from files at $XDG_DATA_DIRS/wayland-sessions/*.desktop, which is typically /usr/share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop. 🌸

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay — report it over at https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-wayland-session/issues and the girlies will handle it. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

LXQt 2.3.0 · November 2025 · this was STARTLXQTWAYLAND(1) and she ate, no crumbs. 🎀✨💖 periodt.

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