Xfce 4.12 + KWin5

Question

I installed Xubuntu 15.04 with Xfce 4.12.

I would like to use KWin as the window manager.

With previous versions of Xfce and KWin replacing xfwm with kwin was pretty straightforward, but now both Xfce and Kwin seem to have changed significantly and old instructions (see for instance: here) are not valid anymore.

Additional notes:

With in KWin5, the program kwin has been replaced by kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland.
If I run kwin_x11 --replace, I get no decorations.

If I try to install kwin-style-qtcurve (as indicated here for an older Xfce), I get a dependency problem on libkdecorations4abi2:

$ sudo env LANG=en_US apt-get install kwin-style-qtcurve
...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kwin-style-qtcurve : Depends: libkdecorations4abi2 (>= 4:4.11.1) but it is not installable
                      Recommends: kde-style-qtcurve but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

No, it doesn't work either way. Please see the updated answer. — Antonio Macrì, Jun 01 '15 at 19:01
Try install it using aptitude similar steps to my answer here . It will show multiple solutions. — user.dz, Jun 01 '15 at 19:36
As per the Xubuntu Strategy Document, dumping xfwm for kwin as your window manager means you've stripped a critical core component out. By that definition you are no longer running Xubuntu as its developers define it. — Stephen Michael Kellat, Jun 07 '15 at 03:14

Xfce 4.12 + KWin5

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