KDE Plasma
KDE Plasma is a popular and feature-rich desktop environment. It's more familiar, customizable, and light on resources than GNOME, more versatile than Cinnamon, and more modern than Xfce. Highly recommended for most users!
- Red-and-black theme (Matchama Dark Aliz), neon icons (BeautyLine), and a golden cursor (Breeze Amber).
- Keyboard shortcuts (note that Super is called Meta in KDE settings):
| Shortcut | Effect |
|---|---|
| Super+↑ | Maximize window. |
| Super+↓ | Minimize window. |
| Super+←/→ | Tile window to the left/right (Super can also be used with numpad keys for tiling to the corners and top/bottom of the screen). |
| Shift+🔆⇧/🔅⇩ | Increase/decrease window opacity (alternatively, scroll the mouse wheel on the window's title bar). |
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Ctrl+Alt+↑/↓/←/→ or Super+Ctrl+↑/↓/←/→ |
Move one workspace (virtual desktop) up/down/left/right. |
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Ctrl+Alt+Shift+↑/↓/←/→ or Super+Ctrl+Shift+↑/↓/←/→ |
Move window one workspace (virtual desktop) up/down/left/right. |
| Super+D | Show desktop. |
| Super+T | Launch default terminal (konsole). |
| Super+F | Launch file manager (dolphin). |
| Super+. | Launch emoji selector. |
| Super+C | Launch calculator (kcalc). |
| Super+S | Launch settings manager. |
| Super+K | Kill selected window (Xorg only). |
| Super+L | Lock screen. |
- A few keyboard shortcuts are also added to the terminal emulator Konsole to assist those accustomed to Terminator:
| Shortcut | Effect |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Split the terminal vertically. |
| Ctrl+Shift+O | Split the terminal horizontally. |
| Alt+↑↓←→ | Shift active focus up/down/left/right (while terminal is split). |
- Finally, the behavior of highlighting text by holding Shift while using numpad keys is adjusted to suit most modern users' expectations.
In addition to the default GDL software, the following packages are installed:
- Several standard KDE apps, including:
- KDE Connect for seamlessly connecting your PC and smartphone.
- Gwenview for viewing images.
- Kamoso for taking webcam pictures/video with various filters.
-
Discover for finding new (non-AUR) apps of interest. Installation and updates should still be handled via terminal (
pacmanoryay).
- A handful of casual KDE games:
- To update your system, type
yayupin a terminal. - If a game exhibits screen-tearing or other issues that might be caused by the window compositor, disable/enable compositing via Alt+Shift+F12.