Review of freshly installed Fedora 37 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)

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SCREENSHOT 31) Another widget placed on the Panel Toolbox – the icons-only task manager to show icons on the opened applications.

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Icons-only task manager

SCREENSHOT 32) The page application – shows a preview of the different desktop screens if there is more than one.

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pager edit mode

SCREENSHOT 33) Remove the “Analog clock” widget with the right-click context menu.

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Remove or configure widget – remove

SCREENSHOT 34) The widget “Analog Clock” has been removed.

You may undo the operation.

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Widget removed notification

SCREENSHOT 35) Switch between programs with Alt-tab.

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Task switch – Alt-tab

SCREENSHOT 36) Three opened applications and the Discover application on focus.

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switched to Discover application

SCREENSHOT 37) The upper right corner task switcher.

Go with the mouse to the upper right corner to activate the task switch. All windows are visible and the one with the mouse over it is brighter.

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Task switch – upper right corner

SCREENSHOT 38) Switch or create a new Activity with the Alt+D+A.

Click on “Create activity…” to create a new activity. Here is more on KDE Plasma Activity – https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-desktop/plasma-desktop/activities-interface.html.

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Activities create activity

SCREENSHOT 39) Create a new activity with the name “test”.

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Create new activity

SCREENSHOT 40) Switch between the activities by clicking on the one you want to switch to.

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two activities

SCREENSHOT 41) The new activity “test” is active and on focus now.

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switch to second activities

SCREENSHOT 42) Click on Fedora main menu then the Restart button to restart the computer.

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Restart Menu

SCREENSHOT 43) Confirm to restart of the KDE Plasma Desktop.

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Restart confirmation

SCREENSHOT 44) Lock and Log out is just an icon on the bottom right corner of the Fedora main menu.

Click on “Lock” to lock the user’s desktop.

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Lock and Log out

SCREENSHOT 45) The screen session of the current user has been locked.

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screen session locked

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