Hello,

I am trying to make my Kali Linux virtual machines behave similarly to my Pop!_OS system. I am looking for the tiling desktop, workspaces, shortcuts, etc.

I installed Kali into a VM and made sure to install the GNOME desktop using the GDM3 window manager. I then followed these instructions, using the Ubuntu portion of the instructions - https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-shell/

I do have the option of turning on the tiling but the workspaces and the shortcuts functionality does not all appear to be there.

Can anyone help point me down the path of getting the full Pop!_OS desktop functionality on a Kali Linux build?

Thanks!

  • Michael Murphy (S76)MEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    You have to install all of the cosmic extensions and the Pop session. However, extensions are sensitive to the version of GNOME you’re using so you need the master_jammy branch of each extension for GNOME 42.

    • @TheAnalogKidOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Thanks! This sounds promising but there is not much there in the way of … hey … here is what you do with this stuff.

      /usr … do I just copy the contents into the /usr directory?

      /debian … do not know what to do with this

      Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks!

      • Michael Murphy (S76)MEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        These repos have makefiles so it’s make && sudo make install after using git to clone the repo URLs. You can reference build dependencies in debian/control. You can call dpkg-buildpackage -b to build a debian package if you’d rather that then installing with make directly.