We extend Plasma to allow the user to glance over system operations with easy-to-understand status displayed on the screen. NX Desktop is our set of applied customizations to the Plasma 5 Desktop. It includes new plasmoids (or Plasma widgets) and a new LnF (also known as a “look and feel”) package that includes the following items: KStyle, KWin decorations, wallpapers, Plasma themes, Konsole theme and profile, Aurorae themes, SDDM themes, cursors, and color schemes.

**NX Desktop is not a desktop environment; it’s a customization layer. NX Desktop does not provide a file manager, web browser, multimedia player, email client, address book, PDF reader, photo manager, or system preferences application.

Additionally, we provide a way to run menubar commands with plasma-hud, much like the Unity 7 Heads-Up Display (HUD). A Heads-Up Display (HUD) allows you to search through an application’s tool menu.

**To invoke the HUD, press the Menu key.

Touchégg is an app that runs in the background and transforms the gestures you make on your touchpad or touchscreen into visible actions on your desktop. For example, you can swipe up with three fingers to maximize a window or swipe left with four fingers to switch to the next desktop.

Many more actions and gestures are available, and everything is easily configurable.

**Touchégg works with Wayland and X11.

The Overview will let you visualize all your virtual desktops and windows swiftly. You can move windows between virtual desktops and close and configure them to accommodate your workflow.

**Overview can be activated using Super+W or a three-finger gesture on the touchpad.

All of the artwork featured in NX Desktop is free (of cost) and open source. Users interested can check our organization at GitHub, where they’re also welcome to contribute.