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pebcak · January 2, 2024, 2:14pm

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

milkytwix · January 2, 2024, 4:36pm

Too much bloat!

swh · January 2, 2024, 7:02pm

Playing around with starship.toml

@Noodly you can take it here

Noodly · January 2, 2024, 8:05pm

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.

smokey · January 3, 2024, 12:02am

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)

pebcak · January 3, 2024, 1:14am

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.

smokey · January 3, 2024, 1:18am

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

ntp · January 3, 2024, 8:44am

Obtained a new (used) GPU just before the holidays. And wow, Wayland works incredibly well with an AMD GPU instead of Nvidia.

SpoOokY · January 4, 2024, 7:13am

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!!!

Noodly · January 4, 2024, 10:50pm

anon63071375 · January 5, 2024, 1:08am

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:

Noodly · January 5, 2024, 1:14am

Really nice to see you around again. Happy New Year.

anon63071375 · January 5, 2024, 1:16am

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

Noodly · January 5, 2024, 3:05am

hehehehe I like that.

Raxelgrande · January 5, 2024, 4:35pm

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!

Nailz · January 5, 2024, 7:13pm

Budgie

anon63071375 · January 6, 2024, 5:02am

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!

SPOFF · January 6, 2024, 1:16pm

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.

Zircon34 · January 6, 2024, 2:18pm

you can also use gnome with x11 btw. just saying. cinnamon great too

Raxelgrande · January 7, 2024, 1:11am

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