You can install only the kde-plasma-desktop
or plasma-desktop
package in Ubuntu, they give you the basic desktop environments needed for kde. I think kde-plasma-desktop
is better, since it is more parent package for plasma-desktop
and not bigger than it's child (plasma-desktop
).
As for the startup and shutdown screen, enter the following commands in terminal. If you have already installed the kubuntu-desktop
package.
sudo apt-get remove plymouth-theme-kubuntu-logo plymouth-theme-kubuntu-text
.
You can also install the packages with names starting with kde-config-xxxx
, since they provide the volume control, networking_applet, bluetooth and other system-configuration functionality for the KDE.
Don't forget the kde-config-gtk
package and gtk3-engines-oxygen
, gtk2-engines-oxygen
and optionally oxygen-molecule
packages. They provide you the uniform look and feel in KDE and GNOME. (
Prevents ugly look of Gnome apps, when opened in KDE).
You can install other recommended packages as per your need by
- opening the
synaptic
package manager,
- search for
kubuntu-desktop
package in the search bar,
- right clicking on the package name, pointing the
mark recommended for Installation
list,
- and selecting a package from newly appeared sub-menu.
Note: From my experience, I see that, after opening firefox
in KDE, when you open it again in GNOME, you will get ugly looking font-rendering of firefox
. This happens because KDE use Full hinting style, where Gnome use Slight hinting style. To prevent this,
- delete the file in your home directory with name
.fonts.conf
after login in Gnome session
- or edit the file with replacing
hintmedium
with value hintslight
.
Hope this will help.
If don't like to remove kubuntu-logo splash screen
If you simply want to switch to ubuntu splash screen, you can do this by entering following in terminal
sudo update-alternatives --config default.plymouth
and selecting ubuntu-logo.plymouth
by entering associated number. This will restore Ubuntu splash screen.
You must enter sudo update-initramfs -u
command following the previous command, to save the change.