Preferences

These are personal configuration preferences.

Install Arc and Papirus themes

# Choose arc-icon-theme for recommended features.
pamac install papirus-icon-theme arc-gtk-theme
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/arc-kde/master/install.sh | env uninstall=true sh
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/arc-kde/master/install.sh | sh
sudo find /usr/share/{plasma,aurorae,color-schemes,konsole,konversation,Kvantum,plasma,wallpapers,yakuake} -type d -exec chmod o+rx {} \;
sudo find /usr/share/{plasma,aurorae,color-schemes,konsole,konversation,Kvantum,plasma,wallpapers,yakuake} -type f -exec chmod o+r {} \;

Note

Login required. KDE will not display themes correctly until logging off and logging back in.

System Settings

Global Theme

⌘ ➔ System Settings ➔ Appearance & Style

• Colors & Themes:

  • Global Theme:
    • Colors: Arc Dark
    • Night Light: Always off
    • Application Style: Breeze
      • GNOME/GTK Application Style: Breeze
    • Plasma Style: Arc Dark
    • Window Decorations: Arc Dark
      • Titlebar Buttons (from left to right)
        • Keep above other windows: Leftmost
        • Keep below other windows: Left
        • Context help: Right
        • Shade: Right
        • Minimize: Right
        • Maximize: Right
        • Close: Rightmost
    • Icons: Papirus-Dark
    • Cursors: Breeze
      • Configure Launch Feedback
        • Cursor feedback: None
        • Task Manager feedback: ✔
        • Stop animations after: 5 seconds
    • System Sound: Ocean
      • Enable Notification Sounds: ✘
    • Splash Screen: Manjaro Splash 2.0 (Use Get New ...)
    • Login Screen: Breath
    • Boot Splash Screen: manjaro-mac-style (Use Get New ...)
  • Login Screen (SDDM)
    • Breath: ✔

    • Background: /usr/share/wallpapers/SafeLanding/contents/images/*.jpg

      Note

      Apply plasma settings after setting background and any other theme UI settings. This will apply the current UI settings (arc dark) to the Breeze login screen; this should match the lockscreen.

• Text & Fonts:

  • Anti-Aliasing: ✔

⌘ ➔ System Settings ➔ Workspace

• General Behavior:
  • Display informational tooltips on mouse hover: ✔
  • Display visual feedback for status changes: ✔
  • Scrolling: Prefer smooth scrolling
  • Clicking files or folders: Selects them
  • Clicking in scrollbar track: Scrolls to the clicked location
  • Middle-click: Pastes selected text
  • Touch Mode: Automatically enable as needed
• File Search:
  • File Indexing: ✘
• Plasma Search:
  • All: ✘
  • Applications: ✔
  • System Settings: ✔
  • Calculator: ✔
  • Date and Time: ✔
  • Dictionary: ✔
  • Help Runner: ✔
  • Special Characters: ✔
  • Spell Checker: ✔
  • Terminate Applications: ✔
  • Unit Converter: ✔

⌘ ➔ System Settings ➔ Apps & Windows

• Default Applications:
  • Web browser: Firefox
  • Email client: Firefox
  • Image viewer: Gwenview
  • Music player: Elisa
  • Video player: VLX media player
  • Text editor: VSCodium
  • PDF Viewer: Okular
  • File manager: Dolphin
  • Terminal Emulator: alacritty
  • Archive manager: Ark
• Window Management:
  • Window Behavior:
    • Focus:
      • Window activation policy: Focus follows mouse
      • Delay focus by: 300ms
      • Focus stealing prevention: None
      • Raising window: Click raises active window
      • Multiscreen behavior: Separate screen focus
    • Titlebar Actions:
      • Double-click: Maximize
      • Mouse wheel: Change opacity
      • Maximize window by double clicking its frame: ✔
      • Maximize button action (left click): Maximize
      • Maximize button action (Middle click): Vertically Maximize
      • Maximize button action (Right click): Horizontally Maximize
    • Advanced:
      • Window placement: Centered
  • Task Switcher
    • Show selected window: ✔
    • Compact: ✔
  • Desktop Effects:
    • Accessibility:
      • All: ✘
      • Zoom: ✔
    • Appearance:
      • All: ✘
      • Blur: ✔
      • Desaturate Unresponsive Applications: ✔
      • Fading Popups: ✔
      • Full Screen: ✔
      • Highlight Screen Edges and hot Corners: ✔
      • Login: ✔
      • Logout: ✔
      • Maximize: ✔
      • Sliding Popups: ✔
    • Focus:
      • All: ✘
      • Dialog Parent: ✔
      • Dim Screen for Administrator Mode: ✔
    • Peek at Desktop Animation: Window Aperture
    • Tools:
      • All: ✘
    • Virtual Desktop Switching Animation: Slide
    • Window Management: Overview
    • Window Open/Close Animation: Fade
  • Virtual Desktops:
    • Delete all extra desktops.
• Notifications:
  • Do Not Distrub Mode: ✔ **when screens are mirrored **
  • Do Not Distrub Mode: ✔ During screen sharing
  • Critical Notifications: ✔ Show in Do Not Disturb mode
  • Normal Notifications: ✘
  • Low priority notifications: ✔ Show popup
  • Low priority notifications: ✘ Show in history
  • Location: ✔ Near notification icon
  • Hide: 5 seconds
  • Application progress: ✔ show in notifications
  • Application progress: ✔ Keep popup open during progress
  • Application progress: ✔ Show in task manager
  • System Notifications:
    • All: ✘
    • Notification: ✔ show a message in a pop-up
  • Application Notifications:
    • All: ✘ (Re-enable to taste)

⌘ ➔ System Settings ➔ Input & Output

• Mouse & Touchpad ➔ Screen Edges
  • Upper left: Lock Screen
  • Upper Right: Present Windows - All Desktops
  • Trigger quarter tiling in: outer 25%
  • Switch on desktop edge: Disabled
  • Activation delay: 75ms
  • Reactivation delay: 350ms
  • Corner Barrier: ✔
  • Edge Barrier: None
• Keyboard ➔ Shortcuts
  • KWin:
    • Make window fullscreen: alt+return
    • Maximize Window: Meta_PgUp
    • Minimize Window: Meta_PgDown
  • Krunner:
    • Launch: Alt+Space, Search, Alt+F2
  • plasmashell:
    • Activate Application Launcher Widget: Meta+Space
• Accessibility:
  • System Bell:
    • Audible Bell: ✘
    • Visual Bell: ✘
  • Keyboard filters:
    • Slow keys: ✘
    • Bounce keys: ✘

⌘ ➔ System Settings ➔ Security & Privacy

• Screen Locking:
  • Lock screen automatically: 5 minutes
  • Lock after waking from sleep: ✔
  • Delay before password required: Require password immediately
  • Keyboard shortcut: Meta+L
• KDE Wallet:
  • Enable the KDE Wallet Subsystem: ✔
  • Use KDE Wallet for the Secret Service interface: ✔
• Recent Files:
  • Keep history: For 1 month
  • Remember opened documents: Only for specific applications
  • Exclude applications not on the list: ✔
• User Feedback: Disabled

⌘ ➔ System Settings ➔ System ➔ Autostart

• Delete all.

Taskbar

Clock ➔ MMB ➔ Configure Digital Clock

• Show date: ✔ Awlays below
• Show seconds: Only in tooltip
• Show time zone: Only when different from local time zone
• Display timezone as: *Code
• Time display: 24 hour
• Date format: ISO date
• Text display: Automatic

System Tray ➔ MMB ➔ Configure System Tray

• General:
  • Scale with Panel height: ✔
• Entries:
  • Always show all entries: ✔
  • All: Disabled
  • Audio Volume: Shown when relevant
  • Bluetooth: Shown when relevant
  • Disks & Devices: Shown when relevant
  • Notifications: Enable for file copy progress to be shown

Taskbar ➔ MMB ➔ Show Panel Configuration

• Style: Disable floating

Remove Unused Tray Apps

• Show desktop
• News
  • Autostart: ✘
  • Error notifications: ✘
• Key lock status
• Manjaro settings manager
  • Check unsupported kernels: ✘
  • Check missing language packs: ✘
  • Manually quit.

Applications

⌘ ➔ add/remove software ➔ ⋮ ➔ preferences ➔ third party

• Enable AUR support: ✔
• Check for updates: ✔
• Check for development packages updates: ✔

pamac install alacritty git git-lfs vim tmux meld steam
#  extra/bind
pamac install signal-desktop discord

Remove extra software to taste

pamac remove skanlit  # Flatbed scanning.
pamac remove hplip  # HP printer libraries.
pamac remove k3b  # CD burner.
pamac remove qbittorrent  # Torrents.
pamac thunderbird thunderbird-i18n-en-us  # Thick email client.
pamac remove yakuake  # Dropdown terminal.
pamac remove openconnect  # Cisco VPNs.
pamac remove networkmanager-openconnect  # Cisco VPNs.

Install Chrome.

Install VSCodium.

Remove MSN (Manjaro Settings Notifier)

Remove if you are an advanced user.

Comment out all contents:

/etc/xdg/autostart/msm_kde_notifier.desktop

/etc/xdg/autostart/pamac-tray-plasma.desktop

/etc/xdg/autostart/org.fcitx.Fcitx5.desktop

Optionally set immutable to prevent upgrades reverting changes.

chattr +i /etc/xdg/autostart/{msm_kde_notifier.desktop,pamac-tray-plasma.desktop,org.fcitx.Fcitx5.desktop}

Reboot to apply changes