KDE

= KDE Plasma Workspaces =

The KDE Plasma Workspaces provide a modern and customizable environment for running your favourite applications and accessing your information wherever it may be. Plasma Desktop, a home/workstation desktop targeting workspace, is a default one but Plasma Netbook is also provided. It is available in Fedora as an alternative to the default desktop offering (Gnome) and other desktop environments and window managers.



Getting Fedora KDE Plasma Workspaces Edition
Get it at the KDE Plasma Workspaces spin page.

You can also download default Fedora and follow Installing KDE Plasma Workspaces topic.

Installing KDE Plasma Workspaces
You will have the option of installing KDE Plasma Workspaces during the Fedora installation process.

You can also install KDE Plasma Workspaces packages after installation using the command line or the package manager of your choice.

To install KDE Plasma Workspaces using the command line, execute the following as root:

yum install @kde-desktop

Using KDE Plasma Desktop
During the default login process, you can use the "Session" menu to choose a KDE login instead of a GNOME login. You will be asked if you wish to make KDE Plasma Desktop your default desktop.

You can make KDE Plasma Desktop the system-wide default desktop. This is not necessary in order to use KDE Plasma Desktop, and may affect other users on the system. There are several ways to make KDE Plasma Desktop the default desktop - GUI and command line tools and manually editing system configuration file.

The default display manager on Fedora is GDM - The GNOME Display Manager. You can switch this to KDM - The KDE Display Manager. This has little impact on the end-user experience, and isn't necessary in order to use KDE Plasma Workspaces and KDE Applications.

Graphical interface
Use your favourite package management tool (yum, kpackagekit) to install, run the   command and select KDE.

To make KDM the default display manager, use your favourite package management tool (yum, kpackagekit) to install, run the   command and select KDM.

Command line
Use your favourite package management tool (yum, kpackagekit) to install  and run the   command.

To make KDM the default display manager, use your favourite package management tool (yum, kpackagekit) to install  and run the   command.

Manual way
Add the following line to :

DESKTOP="KDE"

To make KDM the default display manager, add the following line to :

DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"

Communicate
Fedora KDE users and developers are available in #fedora-kde irc channel in freenode for real-time conversations. We also have a Fedora KDE mailing list at

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde

Fedora's KDE SIG
The  KDE SIG  (Special Interest Group) is a group of Fedora contributors that   maintain  popular KDE packages, take care of KDE-related documentation, artwork and other KDE specific tasks.

Links

 * http://www.kde.org/ - Home of the K Desktop Environment
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE/Using_nm_applet_instead_of_knetworkmanager - How to enable nm-applet by default
 * https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE/How_to_reduce_fullscreen_flicker - How to reduce fullscreen flicker