On Mac or Windows. Platforms other than Linux are not officially supported, as there has yet to be an official release of KDE Connect for MacOS or Windows. However, most of the features have already been ported to windows so you can compile KDE Connect for Windows using Craft. It hasn't yet been completely tested on MacOS, contributions. Jump to:, ' KDE libraries and applications are available to you, no matter if you are a commercial developer, manager or free software hacker. You are invited to not only just use the toolkit - you can contribute your own solutions and improvements to the KDE community. The KDE on Windows Initiative is an ongoing project to port.

Linux have long history which starts with Unix operating system. Linux used a lot of aspect of the Unix operating system. One of those aspect was Graphical User interface with X server. X server mainly operates between operating system and user side. Desktop environments provides real GUI but uses X server to communicate with operating system and related hardware like Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse etc.

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Before installing KDE desktop we will list included tools group with the groupinfo command of yum .

List KDE Tools

We can see that there are mandatory tools

Now we will install KDE or KDE Plasma Workspace with its full name to the operating system. This command will also install the X Server because of dependency issues.

After installing KDE if we restart the system we will see the same tty login screen not a GUI. This is because KDE Login Manager named kdm is not installed by default. So we will install KDE Login Manager like below.

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After install KDE Login Manager the default Login manager do not set automatically. There is a tool named switchdesk which can set the default desktop and login manager. We will install switchdesk and set KDE as default desktop manager

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Now we will set KDE as default desktop manager with the following command.

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Switch Default Desktop

Now we will remove default SDDM Service with the following command.

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And than we will enable KDM Login manager service with the following command.

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Now welcome to the KDE Desktop