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Plasma

AerynOS now offers KDE Plasma as a Desktop Environment though it is currently considered beta staus. You can track the progress of identifying and resolving Plasma related issues on Github.

Installing Plasma on an existing AerynOS install

If you are already using GNOME, you are able to install KDE Plasma side by side and select which Desktop Environment to use in GDM at login. You do this by installing one of three package sets:

Terminal window
sudo moss install pkgset-aeryn-plasma-minimal
sudo moss install pkgset-aeryn-plasma-recommended
sudo moss install pkgset-aeryn-plasma-full

The names are fairly self explanatory:

  • Minimal: The minimum number of packages required for a Plasma desktop session
  • Recommended: The minimal Plasma desktop session plus additional recommended applications
  • Full: The recommended Plasma desktop session plus all available KDE applications

Controlling the display manager

If you’ve installed Plasma over the top of a GNOME install, you can still log into your Plasma session from gdm. You can also safely remove gdm and have either sddm or plasma-login-manager take over. Note: GNOME Shell still expects gdm for full functionality.

Installing either sddm or plasma-login-manager

Terminal window
sudo moss install sddm

or

Terminal window
sudo moss install plasma-login-manager

Removing gdm

If you wish to remove gdm, you would use the following command:

Terminal window
sudo moss remove gdm