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KDE Plasma Desktop

KDE is a worldwide community of volunteer software developers who work together to build and maintain Free and Open Sourse pieces of Software.

Plasma is a desktop environment developed by the KDE community. A key feature of Plasma Desktop and of all KDE applications is that they are very customizable.

The System Settings app allows you can customize your desktop experience extensively. Settings are divided in many pages (there are a lot of them).

KIO Admin

Dolphin (KDE File manager) refuses to run as root. To navigate and edit system folders you need KIO Admin module which adds a context menu "Open with KIO Admin" and will ask you admin password.

sudo apt install kio-admin

KDE Plasma theme

KDE Plasma taskbar

  • Disable mouse wheel looping through activities
  • Disable icon grouping

KDE Web search

  • Open KDE System Settings
  • Go to Search
  • Go to Plasma Search
  • Go to keyword web search
  • Click configure
  • Disable all Big Data search engines
  • Set DDG url with parameters as done in Firefox section

GTK+ Applications with KDE File Dialog

Add export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to .profile and logout/login Arch Wiki

Eyes Protection

KDE Connect

Project's website: kdeconnect.kde.org

KDE Connect is an application that enables all your devices (smartphones, tablets and computers) to communicate with each other.

KDE Connect has a lot of features:

  • Share files and link between devices
  • Share the clipboard (what you copied on the phone can be instantly pasted on the computer)
  • Sync phone notifications to your computers
  • Control music and video playback on one device from another one
  • Browse files on your phone from your computer
  • And many more...

In order to use KDE Connect, you need to open the app on both your computer and your phone; they must be connected to same network (e.g. your home Wi-Fi). You should now be able to see in each screen the name of the device you wish to pair with. If it's not working, you may need to modify your firewall settings.

You can find detailed information about KDE Connect on this page of the KDE UserBase Wiki.