Hello,
I have two old laptops. On first I have Lubuntu since version 20.04 (now 25.04) and on second I just installed Alpine Linux with LXQT… and Lubuntu looks 1000% better 
Is there a way to export ‘look and feel’ of Lubuntu?
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This may sound crazy but! why don’t you just install Lubuntu on that second machine, trying to get it to look like Lubuntu will take a lot longer just my thoughts
It’s Chromebook and Lubuntu was my first shot when I flashed ChromeOS to be able to boot from USB. I just wanted to try something new and because I’m familiar with LXQt I found that it will be good combination
There is no guarantee that themes will work on all versions; Lubuntu 25.04 is using LXQt 2.1, liblxqt 2.1 & Qt 6.8.2 for starters.
I just copy themes between systems, if I like one, I add it to my liked themes, and most of them happily run on all my systems, which of course means Lubuntu, but also Debian, Fedora & OpenSuSE.
The LXQt theme isn’t the whole picture though, as window borders & behavior are NOT related to LXQt; as LXQt is WM agnostic, with Lubuntu using openbox as its WM; so you’ll need to consider WM themes as well.
Due to an issue with my unusual monitor layout, I’m not using openbox as my WM, thus for me my setup includes a xfwm4 theme, but as I use xfwm4 on all the listed OSes I provided, to get identical on other machines that will be included.
If you’re using Dark themes too, that can cause variation & thus complications, if using different LXQt versions. If LXQt versions align, key is only to ensure same system packages exist on all OSes & you should be fine (I am with the OSes I mentioned anyway)
My systems are generally kept aligned in regards versions; thus I’m not experiencing issues related to that; so you may have another complication; but I move my stuff across at file-level.
In fact I can move everything across at once; my Fedora, OpenSuSE & Debian setup was created as just a clone of my primary Ubuntu setup anyway; though I had to drop a lot of stuff, especially related to monitor.setup, as my primary box has 5 monitors where the other boxes have only 2 (what was dropped was mostly panels on edges of monitors, due to my having different usable edges & far less screen real estate)
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Thanks for detailed information.
Meantime I copied Lubuntu Arc theme & Ubuntu fonts, changed a bit here and there and finally I have look which doesn’t hurt my eyes 
What belongs to Lubuntu should be keep in Lubuntu
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