Tutorial

This article is not exactly a tutorial, it’s the sharing of an experience that might help others. Follow this guide at your own risk. Document yourselves before doing anything. „Don’t write code you don’t understand” (Toth Arpad).

After using LVM for a long time, and performing all sorts of experiments with logical volumes on my laptop, to have flexibility and to be able to keep moving and reinstalling all sorts of Linux distros, I’ve decided to go for it and listen to the Open Source community and give BTRFS a run for it’s money.

Two weeks ago was the release of the latest and greatest Kubuntu.

Kubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet brought to the market one very important and very significant change: It’s among the first distros to ship with Plasma 5 and the new KDE Frameworks 5.

In celebration of this, together with Aaron Honeycutt, Rick Timmis and of course Jonathan Riddell, I held a presentation of our new Kubuntu at the Ubuntu Online Summit 2015.

The following is presented in KDE 4.10.3.

The default way of application switching on KDE, by using (Left) Alt + Tab, is Thumbnails. A classic representation of the thumbnails of all opened applications in a row.

To bring a piece of eye candy to this functionality, you could try to use the Cover Switch.

After I’ve searched on the internet for an efficient way without using other libraries except sdt, and some questions on IRC, I’ve gotten to this solution: