

reboot Step 3: Using KDE Plasma Desktop on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 Vdpau-driver-all vlc-data vlc-plugin-base vlc-plugin-video-outputĠ upgraded, 516 newly installed, 0 to remove and 123 not upgraded.Īfter this operation, 1,064 MB of additional disk space will be used.ĭuring installation you’ll be asked to configure display manager. Sonnet-plugins sshfs systemsettings user-manager va-driver-all Sddm-theme-debian-maui signon-plugin-oauth2 socat software-properties-qt

Qttranslations5-l10n qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin qtwayland5 sddm sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktopĪccept installation when you receive a prompt. sudo apt install kubuntu-desktopįor minimal version with few packages you can use. Then you can install KDE Plasma Desktop environment on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 Linux system. $ sudo apt updateġ23 packages can be upgraded. Once the repository has been added update APT cache index to get latest list of packages. Done Step 2: Install KDE Plasma Desktop on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04 Press to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel adding it. This PPA will receive major version updates backported from later Kubuntu releases (and our development release) so if instead you want early access to just point (bugfix) releases of the versions of applications shipped with a Kubuntu release, then our updates PPA provides those: Press the key when prompted to continue with the installation. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports We can use its repositories to download the latest packages of KDE Plasma Desktop on Ubuntu 22.04|20.04|18.04Īdd the PPA repository to your system using the commands below. Installing Fusumaįirst of all, your user must be a member of the input group, so the application can read the touchpad inputs.Kubuntu is an official flavour of the Ubuntu with the KDE Plasma Desktop instead of the GNOME desktop environment. I’ll soon update the post with further informations and try to give a workaround for that. The following tutorial, based on the README of the Fusuma project, will teach how to setup the environment for Unity and GNOME in Ubuntu 16.04 (it also works also work in some others Ubuntu-Based distros, like Elementary OS)įusuma is supposed to work on Ubuntu 18.04, although some users are reporting issues with it. But thanks to Kohei Yamada, who developed the application Fusuma in Ruby to recognize multitouch input on the trackpad on Linux, shortcuts can be easily configured to different gestures. Unfortunately these gestures are not available by default on the major Linux distributions. Beyond the visual effects, these tools are more intuitive than a keyboard shortcut and thus can improve our productivity. If you ever used a MacBook (or if you have a Windows 10 laptop with a compatible touchpad), you know how pleasant and useful can be the trackpad gestures to change desktops, show all open windows and pinch-to-zoom.
