How To Install kwin-wayland on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kwin-wayland
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is kwin-wayland
kwin-wayland is:
KWin (pronounced as one syllable “kwin”) is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. It gives you complete control over your windows, making sure they’re not in the way but aid you in your task. It paints the window decoration, the bar on top of every window with (configurable) buttons like close, maximize and minimize. It also handles placing of windows and switching between them.
This package provides the wayland version, which is still a work in progress project, and is available as a PREVIEW release. Don’t expect the same stability as with the x11 version.
Package: kwin-wayland Architecture: amd64 Version: 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/kde Source: kwin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 781 Provides: kwin Depends: kwayland-integration (>= 5.18.0), kwin-common (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2), kwin-wayland-backend-drm (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2) | kwin-wayland-backend-fbdev (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2) | kwin-wayland-backend-x11 (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2) | kwin-wayland-backend-virtual (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2) | kwin-wayland-backend-wayland (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2), libcap2-bin, xwayland, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libepoxy0 (>= 1.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfreetype6 (>= 2.6), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.2.0), libkf5crash5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5idletime5 (>= 5.13.0), libkf5quickaddons5 (>= 5.26.0), libkf5waylandclient5 (>= 4:5.41.0+git20171227), libkf5waylandserver5 (>= 4:5.56.0), libkf5windowsystem5 (>= 5.7.0+git20150224.0052+15.04), libkwineffects12 (>= 4:5.1.95+git20150122), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.9.0~), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.9.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 5), libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1, qtbase-abi-5-12-8 Filename: pool/universe/k/kwin/kwin-wayland_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 197984 MD5sum: 37c077bf583d8a96febb18e51ce39ab8 SHA1: 73af3d88ea291cdf004f1a13e6c46ed4a5fa8dd7 SHA256: 056ec4566190f74479b98d0a3fab869f50fa429ea03a84dc6696be9ae9a85b4d Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/kwin Description-en: KDE window manager, wayland version, PREVIEW release KWin (pronounced as one syllable “kwin”) is the window manager for the KDE Plasma Desktop. It gives you complete control over your windows, making sure they’re not in the way but aid you in your task. It paints the window decoration, the bar on top of every window with (configurable) buttons like close, maximize and minimize. It also handles placing of windows and switching between them.
This package provides the wayland version, which is still a work in progress project, and is available as a PREVIEW release. Don’t expect the same stability as with the x11 version.
There are three methods to install kwin-wayland
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install kwin-wayland Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kwin-wayland
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kwin-wayland
Install kwin-wayland Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kwin-wayland
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kwin-wayland
Install kwin-wayland Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install kwin-wayland
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kwin-wayland
How To Uninstall kwin-wayland on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the kwin-wayland
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kwin-wayland
Uninstall kwin-wayland And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kwin-wayland
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kwin-wayland
Remove kwin-wayland Configurations and Data
To remove kwin-wayland
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kwin-wayland
Remove kwin-wayland configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kwin-wayland
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kwin-wayland
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kwin-wayland
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.