Improve documentation on installing KDE in dom0

[Rudd-O]

These are the packages needed:

packages:
- plasma-workspace
- plasma-systemsettings
- plasma-breeze
- kde-settings-plasma
- plasma-desktop
- kwin
- kscreen

Note the missing package in #2662 .

Here is an Ansible playbook that deploys KDE and works around some issues of KDE not being present in the base image:

- hosts: dom0
  become: true
  vars:
    packages:
    - plasma-workspace
    - plasma-systemsettings
    - plasma-breeze
    - kde-settings-plasma
    - plasma-desktop
    - kwin
    - kscreen
  tasks:
  - name: install required software
    shell: qubes-dom0-update -y {{ " ".join(packages) }}
    register: dom0install
    changed_when: '{{ "Nothing to do" not in dom0install.stdout }}'
  - name: fix PAM settings for kscreensaver so the screen can be unlocked
    shell: |
      cd /etc/pam.d
      diff kscreensaver xscreensaver > /dev/null && {
        echo ALREADY
      } || {
        test -f kscreensaver.bak || cp -f kscreensaver kscreensaver.bak
        cat xscreensaver > kscreensaver
      }
    register: kscreensaverfix
    changed_when: '{{ "ALREADY" not in kscreensaverfix.stdout }}'

[marmarek]

Have you tried this: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/kde/ ?
It's linked from the main documentation index...

[marmarek]

Have you tried this: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/kde/ ?
It's linked from the main documentation index...

[andrewdavidwong]

@Rudd-O: As Marek pointed out, there clearly exists documentation about installing KDE in dom0. Should this issue instead be about improving that documentation?

[andrewdavidwong]

@Rudd-O: As Marek pointed out, there clearly exists documentation about installing KDE in dom0. Should this issue instead be about improving that documentation?

[Rudd-O]

Yes.

[Rudd-O]

Yes.

[Rudd-O]

The docs mention a kstart program that does not seem to be available on my system after installing KDE.

The docs also make no mention of the fact that the screenlocker will malfunction and needs a fix as per the above role (which I have uploaded to https://github.com/Rudd-O/ansible-samples/tree/master/qubeskde )

[Rudd-O]

The docs mention a kstart program that does not seem to be available on my system after installing KDE.

The docs also make no mention of the fact that the screenlocker will malfunction and needs a fix as per the above role (which I have uploaded to https://github.com/Rudd-O/ansible-samples/tree/master/qubeskde )

[Rudd-O]

OK. KDE ships with a program called kstart5. The docs need to be updated to reflect that.

[Rudd-O]

OK. KDE ships with a program called kstart5. The docs need to be updated to reflect that.

[andrewdavidwong]

@Rudd-O: Please consider submitting a PR.

[andrewdavidwong]

@Rudd-O: Please consider submitting a PR.