KDE Plasma

[CTT2 (Daniel Coleman)]

I apologize, but I did not know what to select for this. I’m new to penetration testing and was loving Parrot Security when I first installed it. It was using KDE Plasma at the time, or at least that was an option. I am curious to know why it isn’t available anymore. Mate is alright, but I honestly think it is ridiculous that there is essentially two main menus. Of course, I might be missing something, because I try to do things through the terminal while I can, but as I am learning, this is funky to me.

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[JayRadz]

KDE Seems to be available still, but not KDE Plasma.
You can find all available DE’s by running apt search parrot-desktop-*

──╼ $sudo apt search parrot-desktop-*
[sudo] password for jayradz: 
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
parrot-desktop-gnome/parrot,parrot 5.1.9 all
  GNOME based Parrot desktop

parrot-desktop-i3/parrot,parrot 5.1.9 all
  Meta package for i3 Window Manager

parrot-desktop-kde/parrot,parrot 5.1.9 all
  KDE based Parrot desktop

parrot-desktop-mate/parrot,parrot,now 5.1.9 all [installed]
  Parrot interface metapackage

parrot-desktop-stub/parrot,parrot 5.1.9 all
  stub/empty package for parrot-interface

parrot-desktop-xfce/parrot,parrot 5.1.9 all
  Parrot interface metapackage

Here’s the Docs about the DE’s (because you have to switch to the other environment after installing a new one too: Desktop Enviroments | ParrotOS Documentation)

The menu in the Top bar in MATE is a panel btw, you can remove it if you want by right clicking on it and choosing “Remove From Panel”:

And you can create new panels and buttons too:

Hope this helps alleviate the DE struggle

[CTT2 (Daniel Coleman)]

Thank you for the tip! I didn’t know that I could customize the MATE environment like that. I am going with that for now to try it out.

[Parmann]

I installed KDE Plasma using Synaptic Package Manager. Works perfectly!