Personal configurations to make plasma a fully tiling desktop. With themes and color schemes from Material ocean
Requirements
- A fresh KDE Plasma installation(check other branches for other dots)
- Zsh
- Tmux
- Latte-Dock-git
- required programs
- ksuperkey (map meta to open krunner)
- flameshot (for taking screenshots)
- libinput-gestures (touchpad gestures)
- unclutter (hide pointer when not in use)
Fonts
- San Francesco Display (UI font)
- JetBrains Mono Nerd Font (Mono font)
Installation
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/Blacksuan19/Dotfiles ~/.dotfilescd ~/.dotfilesbash install.shto install everything (including fonts).
After Installation to do
cd othersbash once.shif on a clean install.- set plasma themes.
- select
split beautylayout for latte dock. - import kwin rules and shortcuts under the
plasmafolder
Plasma Extras
To achieve an exact replica of this setup there are some plasma settings that need to be tweaked
- enable snap helper, desktop grid and desktop overview from desktop effects
- set hot corners for desktops overview and desktop grid (top right, top left)
- disable title bars for all windows from here
- lightly shaders
- move windows with alt and mouse (window behaviour -> window actions -> modifier key)
- set focus stealing to none, focuses new window on open (window behaviour -> focus -> focus stealing)
- set focus to follow mouse (window behaviour -> focus window activity policy)
Shortcuts
Keybindings
Plasma shortcuts under settings is the preferred way to manage keyboard shortcuts, for tiling, Bismuth is used with most of the shortcuts left as default, any changes done are mentioned below.
| key | function |
|---|---|
| win key(mod/super) | launch krunner |
| super + w | launch browser (default is google chrome) |
| super + Enter | launch terminal (default is kitty) |
| super + f | launch file manager (default is dolphin) |
| super + q | kill current window |
| super + space | switch between tiling and last used layout |
| super + shift + F | make window float |
| super + {h,j,k,l} | focus the window on left, below, above, right respectively |
| super + Tab | cycle through last used desktops (in order) |
| super + 1-9 | go to desktop 1-9 |
| super + shift + 1-9 | move window to desktop number 1-9 |
| super + ctrl + {h,j,k,l} | shrink window on given side |
| super + direction | stick window at given direction corner |
| take a full screenshot | |
| print + shift | launch flameshot area selection |
| super + v | launch clipboard |
| super + s | launch spotify |
| super + t | launch telegram |
Gestures
Gestures are handled by libinput-gestures, to modify them, directly edit the conf file under .config (not recommended) or use gestures tool.
| gesture | function |
|---|---|
| 3 finger swipe down | go to next desktop |
| 3 finger swipe up | go to previous desktop |
| 3 finger swipe left | go back (alt + left) |
| 3 finger swipe right | go forward (alt + right) |
| 4 finger swipe down | enter window overview mode (all desktops) |
| 4 finger swipe up | enter desktop overview mode |
Screenshots
Global theme: Breeze
Plasma Style: Material Ocean
Color scheme: Breeze with #ff4151 as accent color
Terminal: Konsole
Terminal Theme: Material ocean
File Manager: Dolphin
Icons: Tela
Browser: Google Chrome Stable
New Page: Tabliss (config under others folder)
Docks: Latte Dock (Split Beauty)
