![]() You can add applications to it just dragging the icons.įor the application launcher, I added the widget U Launcher to the dock (you have to install it from the Add Widgets > Get new widgets menu) and configured its icon to the one with the rocket. It has a lot of options but I just configured it to appear in the bottom centre and adjusted the size of the icons. ![]() Once installed, just open the program searching it in your Application Launcher under the Utilities section. The easiest way to install it is using the KDE Software centre (search for Latte) and if you are running a different Linux distribution, you can check how to insall it in the following article. I've configured the shortcut to Win+Space so I can have something similar to Spotlight from OS X. Panel Spacer: A small space between widgets.You can configure it to show/hide different options. System Tray: Typical menu for the Wifi, Bluetooth, batery, updates, keyboard layouts (if you have more than one) etc.Pager: These adds buttons to move between your desktops.Panel Spacer: Just to add a space between widgets.It will contain the typical File/Edit/View. Global Menu: To replicate the menu item in OS X.Then I selected the Bold option so the name pops up a little bit. In the configuration I changed "No active window label" to "Custom Text" and "No active custom text" to "Desktop". ![]() Application title: This is just used to have the name of the application on focus before the Global Menu.I rarely use it but it's useful sometimes. Application Launcher: It's the typical menu that contains all the system applications, shortcuts to shutdown, etc.Main panel widgetsįor the widgets the first thing I did was to move the main panel to the top of the screen and add the following widgets in this order (from left to right): Here you can also configure the icon alignment, mouse actions (like switch between desktops), etc. To change the desktop wallpaper, just right click on the desktop and go to Configure Desktop. Login Screen > Advanced > Cursor Theme: Capitaine Cursors.Login Screen > Theme: Chili for Plasma - You have to download it using the "Get New Themes." button.Task Switcher: Cover Switch / Grid - I'm not sure which one of these I prefer but definately not the KDE default one.Virtual Desktops > Number of Desktops: 3.Screen Locking > Appearance: Select a wallpaper.I've removed the maximise one and arrange them to the left and added a menu button in the right side corner. Window Decorations > Buttons: You can re arrange the buttons to close/minimise/maximise and add others as you wish.Window Decorations > Theme > Border size: Very Large - This is very useful when using a trackpad as selecting the border to resize windows can be difficult.Window Decorations > Theme: Breezemite dark - You have to download it using the "Get New Themes." button.Icons: MAC OS X impression - You have to download them using the "Get New Themes." button. Cursor Theme: Capitane Cursors - You have to download it using the "Get New Themes." button.įonts: default - I prefer not to play around with the font config as it's pretty easy to do a mess.Desktop Theme: Aex Dark - You have to download it using the "Get New Themes." button.If you prefer to run Ubuntu, there are plenty of tutorials to just install KDE on it like this one. The main characteristic of KDE is that it's very configurable by default (window appearance, icons, cursors.) and you can extend it installing widgets. It's an LTE version and the main difference between it and Ubuntu is that this one uses KDE as desktop environment instead of Gnome. Yes, I've basically cloned the look of OS X on Linux. ![]() After trying different desktop environments, like Mate and even different Linux distributions I think I've finally found a setup I'm really comfortable using. In addition, half of the time I'm using OS X at work and switching between them was a bit of a pain. Animations were slow and sometimes my desktop wasn't as fluid as I think it should be on an Intel i7 8550u, 16GB RAM and a pretty fast NVMe SSD. If you like it, feel free to pay me a visit and check other articles in my blog.ĭuring 2018 I've been running Ubuntu in my personal laptop and, although overall I like running Linux, I wasn't fully sold on Gnome. This article was originally posted in my website.
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