KDE Desktop

Download

Desktop

• sudo pacman -S plasma-desktop konsole dolphin

Wayland support

• sudo pacman -S plasma-wayland-session
• sudo pacman -S egl-wayland xorg xorg-xwayland libxcb

Wayland drm mode

• sudo vim /etc/default/grub

Implement

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

Wayland nvidia users

• sudo vim /etc/default/grub
• Edit

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash nvidia-drm.modeset=1"

Drivers

Display drivers

• kscreen
• kde-gtk-config

• Enable in Startup and Shutdown -> Background Services -> GNOME/GTK...

Sound Drivers

Choose one of:

• Pipewire

• pipewire

• pipewire-jack

• pipewire-pulse

• pipewire-alsa

• lib32-pipewire-jack

• Jack

• jack2

• lib32-jack2

• a2jmidid

• Pulseaudio [Recommended by BoboDev]

• pulseaudio-alsa

• pulseaudio-bluetooth

• pulseaudio-equalizer

• pulseaudio-jack

• pulseaudio-lirc

• pulseaudio-zeroconf

• KDE

• wireplumber

• plasma-pa

• systemctl --user enable wireplumber.service pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service

• reboot

KDE Drivers

• breeze-gtk
• bluedevil

• If you are using the bluetooth

• plasma-nm
• plasma-vault
• qt5-webview
• vulkan-tools
• noto-fonts-emoji

Utils

Display Managers

Reduce shuttering in audio

• renice -n -15 -p $(pgrep pipewire)

Auto Login

Recomended to do this with sddm

• sudo vim /etc/sddm.conf.d/autologin.conf
• Add

[Autologin]
User=john
Session=plasma

You also can find sessions in /usr/share/xsessions/ for Xorg or /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ for Wayland

Starting kde with startx command

• sudo pacman -S xorg-xinit
• sudo cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc
• startx

Disable KWallet

Everyone hates this

• vim ~/.config/kwalletrc
• Edit

[Wallet]
Enabled=false

• sudo vim /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.kwalletd5.service
• Comment

#Exec=/usr/bin/kwalletd5

Auto Login KWallet

• sudo pacman -S kwallet-pam
• Add empty password to kwallet
• Changing password
• KWalletManager