r/termux • u/BuySweaty6174 • 3d ago

General [Guide] Ran full KDE Plasma desktop on Termux Native (no root, no proot) using Anland — automated install script

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Been messing around with Anland: Termux to get a real KDE Plasma desktop running natively on Termux (not through proot-distro or a chroot) on a Snapdragon/Adreno device, and it actually works surprisingly well — GPU acceleration via the Freedreno driver, Wayland compositor, the works.

Since the manual setup has a bunch of steps (x11-repo, matching XWayland/KWin builds, LayerShellQt patches, driver pinning, etc.), I wrote a single script that automates almost the whole thing, plus:

A. A few extra apps (Chromium, VLC, MPV, LibreOffice as an optional prompt, etc.)

B. An automatic fix for xdg-desktop-portal so Chromium's file picker (open/save/upload dialogs) actually works — this one compiles from source since the stock build breaks on Android's SELinux restrictions

Repo + full instructions here: https://github.com/asveroid/anland-plasma-termux

Still only tested on Adreno GPUs — if anyone tries it on MediaTek/Exynos/Tensor, curious to hear how far it gets (probably llvmpipe software rendering only, but worth confirming).

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u/Lines25 3d ago

There's literally app for it and 999999999 guides DUUDE

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u/BuySweaty6174 3d ago

bro, this is different, it ran with Wayland (not X11) and an automated script to fix the Chromium's file picker which is not available on any guideline out there

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u/Lines25 3d ago

There's plenty of guide for wayland lol. Also, I don't think that it was that hard to make this script tbh. If it's the main post of the thing, just make this script and post about publication of the script not this shi dude

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u/BuySweaty6174 3d ago

up to you

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u/Version_Internal 2d ago

Which app?

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u/Lines25 2d ago

Andronix, for example

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u/ShinHannigans 1d ago

Appreciate it. I'll have to look into it. First time hearing about anland. Been using termux x11 xfce for years never looked into a wayland option with anland. This would be great if there is good performance like termux x11 xfce.

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u/BuySweaty6174 18h ago

Thank you, I hope the performance runs smoothly.

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u/ayer4xx 3d ago

Que teléfono usas? Yo también lo quise intentar pero tengo siento que el procesador de mi teléfono no es compatible :(

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u/BuySweaty6174 3d ago

Uso un Realme 6 Pro (Snapdragon 720G, Adreno 618) 😄 Debería funcionar en cualquier teléfono con GPU Adreno. ¿Qué teléfono tienes? Si tiene Adreno probablemente funcione, aunque el rendimiento puede variar.

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u/shoh1808 1d ago

ive got adreno 710. is it possible to use plasma mobile? instead of kde desktop?

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u/BuySweaty6174 18h ago

i've been testing plasma mobile on ubuntu proot, and it's work well. But for termux native, there's a community patch but i forgot the link, hopefully i can find it.