Archlinux | KDE Plasma 5.27 | Top Panel Autohide
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This year I may challenge myself to keep it around until after the release of Plasma 6 
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Too much bloat!
Ah maaaan, thanks so much. I’ll get back on the ricicle bicycle at the weekend.
I did a little bit of DE hopping within EnOS over the past few days, I’d not tried Gnome so gave it a go. Needless to say I’m in the process of reinstalling Plasma. Probably my favourite part of hopping is getting it out of my system and coming back to something I am so comfortable with; EnOS Plasma.
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I have mine set up similar using either krunner or a click of the mouse to open the menu on an empty desktop space. (I’ve readded the panel but rarely use it anymore)
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Yes, krunner it is for me too. Works just fine.
I like to have a minimum of stuff on my desktop when I login. So I just see the wallpaper.
And a panel set to autohide just for the system tray. No launchers no nothing.
Maybe I just set up an autostart for konsole later on. That is what I launch first anyways.
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Yup 100% I generally only use 1 or 2 programs at a time and when i turn on the pc I know what I’m after and the wallpaper/widgets are there just for eye candy in between tasks. I’d switch to openbox but KDE just implents this so much better with mininal effort
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Obtained a new (used) GPU just before the holidays. And wow, Wayland works incredibly well with an AMD GPU instead of Nvidia.
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Used KDE and Hyprland for a while. But as Wayland and Nvidia is still not that great, I ditched Hyprland in favour of Qtile. Simply love it!!!
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New year, new me.
Ahshahaahahah Just kidding. I’m exactly as I’ve always been. Although I have decided I needed some color on the background I never see. At least on one screen.
screen1:
screen2:
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Really nice to see you around again. Happy New Year. 
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It’s good to be around again, it was a nice little vacation though. I spent my time writing the great American novel and forum hopping elsewhere 
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hehehehe I like that.
Thanks to @anon63071375 for the tutorial he made on Xfce + i3, it really helped me get things going.
First window manager experience! The wallpaper is not that great as i have them randomized and that’s what was there at the moment
The best of both worlds, Xfce desktop utilities and window manager control!
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There’s not nearly enough xfce+i3 love out there. I’m glad to help anyway I could even if it’s an old tutorial, and I don’t really even use it anymore. That looks fantastic!
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After 6 months of trying Gnome and fighting Wayland I decided to try the new Cinnamon 6.0 which runs especially well on EOS. Amazingly X11 still runs fine as it has for the past 30 years. Cinnamon has come a long way since I last used it as a daily driver in 2017.
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you can also use gnome with x11 btw. just saying. cinnamon great too 
Yeah, i had to adapt a bit to get everything working because you can’t install multiple desktops at the same time anymore.
I will update the tutorial in a comment with the steps i followed.
The combination is astonishing, xfce works flawlessly with i3
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