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I try to add a quicklaunch item to the panel in Lubuntu 18.10. This seems only to work with drag and drop from the start menu and not via a menu for the panel setting.

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That's correct; as of LXQt 0.13 there is no way to modify this within the LXQt Panel settings; it's mouse only.

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    Even as mouse-only the behaviour is a bit strange. I seem to be able to use mouse to drag an application icon to Desktop only. Then from Desktop I can drag it to the panel. If I then delete the Desktop icon, the panel icon also stops working but stays there. Dragging directly to panel didn't work for me, or I couldn't figure out the right way.
    – bdutta74
    May 23, 2019 at 4:58
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    Thanks @icarus74 your suggestion to use intermediate icon on Desktop does the trick . otherwise when directly dragging icon from e.g. PCMan File Manager ( as it supposed to work or expected in previous releases ) I got misleading: cannot be embedded into QuickLaunch for now and official docs would not help either . Aug 21, 2019 at 6:49
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Sorry, it should read like this:

[quicklaunch]

alignment=Left

apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-qt.desktop

apps\2\desktop=/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

apps\3\desktop=/usr/share/applications/qterminal.desktop 

apps\size=3 

type=quicklaunch
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This is how I did it in Lubuntu 19.04 to get the qterminal into the panel by changing the quicklaunch-section in the file "~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf":

[quicklaunch] alignment=Left
apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/pcmanfm-qt.desktop
apps\2\desktop=/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
apps\3\desktop=/usr/share/applications/qterminal.desktop 
apps\size=3
> type=quicklaunch
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Is the only way to add a quicklaunch in LXQt by mouse? (understood as drag-and-drop)
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What I just did in Lubuntu 20.04:

  1. Right click on the panel -> Configure panel
  2. Select Widgets
  3. Select + (Add widget)
  4. Select Quick launch. This opens a new group of quick launch icons. Select the terminal icon from the menu.

That's it. You could check the contents of ~/.config/lxqt/panel.conf, under sections [quicklaunch] and [quicklaunch2], to understand the implied changes. This is what I obtained

[quicklaunch2]
alignment=Left
apps\1\desktop=/usr/share/applications/qterminal.desktop
apps\size=1
type=quicklaunch

Manual modifications suggested in other answers are consistent with this.

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