I thought I might have seen that KDE dev somewhere…
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Kome on sink alonk and be happy!
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The day someone makes an EndeavourOS Fluxbox community edition, it will be cause for celebration across the land. People will come in droves!
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I love lxde for simplicity, compactness and lightness. Also OpenBox, but it takes a lot of time to configure and nowhere have I found it as well done as in a certain distro based on…pssst.
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I tried open box once in arch craft, they did an awesome job in customizing this, it’s a beautiful config. But for me too much, I am more minimalist. 
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I followed the installation guide of hypr/sway onto Archcraft but missed the pure rofi (not wofi). Instead of tinkering I give Arco Hyperland a shot and it takes the lead now. (‘retro wave’ in the wallpaper)
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I was really thrilled with KDE Plasma, but now I have 2/3 KDE Plasma working, with the btrfs version out in the weeds with regard to my 2-display port multimon. I had to unplug one of the monitors to host my work laptop, while I was running the btrfs KDE Plasma alongside. Then when I plugged the monitor back in last night, it is broken. I have gone through all of the easy steps trying to restore it, but after I log in, “Poof!” there goes the ASUS monitor, and all I have is the Acer. If i bring up the ASUS by itself, that works, but When I try to set the Display settings through the config, the Acer appears as a column of text next to the ASUS… btrfs didn’t save me here. I’m wondering if I create another user… …or if I can change the DE back and forth.
Is there a way to force a refresh of the KDE Plasma to fix all configuration settings? When I first boot, the splash screen shows on both monitors, but once I log in, it fizzles.
Like in theory, I would like to be able just a force a pacman plasma-only install.
As I recall there is a trick to delete a file in one of your kde config folders in home. Not sure which one it was though. But that is a very very old bug I recall having a couple of years ago with Debian KDE. Not sure it’s the same problem.
Thank you. I was looking at those files in home, and that’s why I thought I should try creating another user, and seeing if that one works, then I could diff the files. I might also be able to diff the files from my working KDE-Plasma installs.
I think you can simply remove .local/share/kscreen and reboot. It will then reset your screens. However, make a copy of that file before removing forever just in case.
If you create a new user and log into that session you should not have that problem as this file would be reset. Else the problem may lie somewhere else to troubleshoot and it is worth opening a separate thread to get better help.
After I eat some dinner, I will follow your steps. I also see that these are JSON files, so I can read them and diff them:
$ cd .local/share/kscreen/
$ file *
1e4bde773461091ced49c02bf7efe953: JSON text data
71cb264ef889492146ae41d100b60a9e: JSON text data
control: directory
f48200878aa3ef56ad66dfde47aa13d4: JSON text data
outputs: directory
$ ls -lrta control
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 220 Jan 7 09:35 …
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 14 Jan 7 09:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 128 Jan 7 11:19 configs
$ ls -lrta control/configs/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 14 Jan 7 09:35 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 julia-n julia-n 200 Jan 7 11:19 71cb264ef889492146ae41d100b60a9e
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 128 Jan 7 11:19 .
-rw-r–r-- 1 julia-n julia-n 374 Jan 7 11:27 f48200878aa3ef56ad66dfde47aa13d4
$ file control/configs/*
control/configs/71cb264ef889492146ae41d100b60a9e: JSON text data
control/configs/f48200878aa3ef56ad66dfde47aa13d4: JSON text data
$ ls -lrta outputs/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 128 Jan 3 07:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 julia-n julia-n 220 Jan 7 09:35 …
-rw-r–r-- 1 julia-n julia-n 399 Jan 7 09:35 909fbd4b6a8d5a0469f4992693f5a5bc
-rw-r–r-- 1 julia-n julia-n 405 Jan 7 11:19 8fd2e34c6d94bc629c6d88c7fc6311cf
$ file outputs/*
outputs/8fd2e34c6d94bc629c6d88c7fc6311cf: JSON text data
outputs/909fbd4b6a8d5a0469f4992693f5a5bc: JSON text data
$
It will be good if I learn exactly what broke, and then maybe make a maintenance tool (or fix the KDE bug).
Ok, those JSON files are trivial, and it would be trivial to make a btrfs-assistant subvolume below home that cherry picks certain config settings.
But this time around, I simply backed up the kscreen subtree, and restarted as @Zircon34 suggested, and that worked perfectly. If i get some extra time, I will try reproducing the fail condition, and see if I can find out what KDE code causes this bug when hot-swapping DisplayPort monitors.
The failed configuration had that enigmatic control directory that was not present in any of my other Plasma builds, and the restored target build no longer has it.
To the OP @Brtza who started this thread, I can say that I still love KDE Plasma, it does everything I need, including Steam games that for the longest time was really the only remaining Windows 10 thorn.
So far, KDE Plasma for EndeavourOS has been a pretty good fit, though I am also interested in using some the terminal-centric Desktop Environments, and I am still deciding what distro to base my LTS servers on.
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How is “i3” play with the mouse, Steam, Vscode , Bluetooth, sound , brightness?
I am using KDE atm ,and no issues. But on my github I have old config for eos-i3 and I kinda missed it.
I think i3 is better optimized for multitasking, keyboard usage etc. But also is hard to decide and clean install i3 xd
Don’t do it if everything is working perfectly on KDE. You can find ways for multitasking on KDE. Just ask @Kresimir
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haha, yes, @Kresimir is a KDE guru 
I tried to use new KDE tiling, but it is a hell complicate. You need to use mouse and keyboard to get it working xD
and on i3, I will learn more about scripting, editing etc . Good for my Vscode and JS skills
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I have both KDE and i3wm installed. When I feel like I want to use keyboard I use i3wm session. Other days when I feel like using the kde bling then switch login session. No problem, both worlds work. 
No need to be a KDE purist 
maybe that is not a bad idea also 
how you did it ?
Selected KDE and i3wm at install from the iso. You could also install KDE plasma only, then later install i3 and configure to your liking. I use the eos theme. Only downside is that I have a couple of programs in duplicate, like dolphin and thunar file manager, which you could avoid by simply installing i3 from scratch and configure, which improves your learning experience. I like the out of the box eos version, just works perfect.
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I’m not going to tell you what to do. I’m not going to tell you what you should do. I’m just telling you KDE for me has been very good. I tried i3 with KDE and the thing i don’t like about mixing desktops is i don’t want different terminals or file managers etc. At least with Xfce and i3 they both are using the same. But hey it’s your laptop you can do whatever anyone else tells you. I won’t tell you what’s best for you. But i will tell you it’s not Gnome!
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