KDE desktop environment
How to install and configure KDE Plasma as your desktop environment
Install audio
pacman -Syu pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-jack pipewire-pulse wireplumber pipewire-docs helvum
Install KDE Plasma
pacman -Syu xorg plasma plasma-wayland-session kdeconnect xdg-desktop-portal sshfs fwupd packagekit-qt5 sonnet
systemctl enable sddm
pacman -Rscn flatpak plymouth
Tip
Disabling capslock key in KDE
System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced > Caps Lock key behavior > Caps Lock is disabled
Tip
KDE Plasma tiling
Activate it in System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects
and then you can tile a window dragging it while holding down the Shift key.
To create custom tile layouts, hold down the Meta key, and then press T.
Tip
KDE fix Firefox fonts
fc-match sans
fc-match serif
fc-cache --really-force
List of applications
Visual Studio Code
yay -Syu visual-studio-code-bin
Tip
Fix VS Code remote connection uses 100% CPU of remote machine
Set settingsSync.keybindingsPerPlatform
to false
Set search.followSymlinks
to false
Image Viewer
yay -Syu nomacs
PDF Viewer
pacman -Syu okular kdegraphics-mobipocket khtml chmlib calligra
VNC
pacman -Syu remmina freerdp libvncserver spice-gtk webkit2gtk-4.1
Image Editing
pacman -Syu gimp krita inkscape
Audio editing
pacman -Syu audacity
Video editing
pacman -Syu kdenlive
Office Suite
pacman -Syu libreoffice-fresh ttf-caladea ttf-carlito ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation hunspell hunspell-en_us hunspell-de
sane
: for scanner access
Static Webpages
pacman -Syu hugo