---
name: "startlxqtwayland"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "lxqt-wayland-session"
version: "0.4.1-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/startlxqtwayland"
---

# startlxqtwayland(1)

script to initialize and launch LXQt Wayland sessions

## NAME

startlxqtwayland - script to initialize and launch LXQt Wayland sessions

## SYNOPSIS

**startlxqtwayland**

## DESCRIPTION

**startlxqtwayland** is a shell script meant to initialize and launch LXQt Wayland sessions.

Its main tasks are exporting environment variables, partly after performing corresponding checks, and launching the configured compositor which will launch **lxqt-session**, the LXQt session manager. It copies the basic configuration file(s) to $XDG\_CONFIG\_USER for the compositor configured in **lxqt-config-session** if not present and tries to set the keyboard layout accordingly to $LANG.

It can be run directly from tty but rather it is invoked by display managers like SDDM or LightDM.

Display managers are making use of scripts like **startlxqtwayland** automatically. Information about available desktop environments is provided by files *$XDG\_DATA\_DIRS/wayland-sessions/\*.desktop*, typically */usr/share/wayland-sessions/\*.desktop*.

## BUGS

 Bugs can be reported on https://github.com/lxqt/lxqt-wayland-session/issues.

## SEE ALSO

[**lxqt-wayland-session**(1)](/lxqt-wayland-session/1.md) [**startlxqt**(1)](/startlxqt/1.md) [**sddm**(1)](/sddm/1.md)