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Must have splash screen set to "None" in KDE settings, otherwise feh will take a long time to set wallpaper
Remember to remove KDE shortcuts to avoid conflict with i3 shortcuts
KDE slows down computer, remove window effects that no longer apply with i3 / compton to speed it up
- Settings -> Desktop Behaviour -> Desktop Effects: uncheck everything
- Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor: uncheck enable compositor on startup, set Tearing Prevention to Never

Dependency	Description	Usage
`plasma`	Best DE, imo	Desktop Environment
`i3-gaps`	Best WM of a generation	Window Manager
Compton (tryone)	Fork of the best window compositor with added blur effects	Window Compositor
`rofi`	Beatiful application launcher	Application Launcher
oh-my-zsh	ZSH is a better looking bash alternative	Shell
Latte Dock	Panel	Best dock / panel
Hasklig Font	Beautiful terminal / text editor / IDE font	Monospace Font with Ligature Support
San Francisco Font	Minimial, clean font used in macOS	System Font
feh	Sets Background	Background Setter

Cool Things to Install

Conky-Cairo: Cool Desktop system monitor tool
- Conky theme in dotfiles is set up to apear on a high DPI laptop display, may appear too large on 1920 x 1080 displays
Flashfocus: Makes windows flash once when switched to active
Install Unimatrix: Cool terminal matrix text flow animation
Install pipes: Cool pipe terminal animation
Install redshift: Changes screen tones for evening viewing
Unclutter: auto hides cursor after set time

Recommended Applications

Terminal: Termite
File Manager: Dolphin
Web Browser: Firefox with Vimium, Stylus, and Dark Reader

Application Theming:

Install a Good Looking Custom Transparent vscode, and follow these settings guidelines
Set up This Firefox Theme
Install Spicetify: Make spotify sexy, guide below

Spotify

Ensure spicetify is installed
chown spotify directory: sudo chown $USER -R /opt/spotify
run spicetify once to generate config
spicetify backup apply enable-devtool to enable devtools
Place your color.ini and user.css in ~/.config/spicetify/Themes/<your theme name, whatever you want> and edit ~/.config/spicetify/config.ini to reflect this name
run spicetify update restart

OhMyZsh

Install Powerline Fonts
- git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git
- cd fonts
- ./install.sh
- set font
Change theme to agnoster -open ~/.zshrc
- Set ZSH_THEME="agnoster" and save the file
Install Plugins (Note That ~/.zshrc edits are in repo)
- Syntax Hilighting
  - git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting
  - Edit ~/.zshrc, add zsh-syntax-highlighting to the plugins section
  - Reread config source ~/.zshrc
- Autosuggestion
  - git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
  - Edit ~/.zshrc, add zsh-autosuggestions to the plugins section
  - Reread config source ~/.zshrc
Guide

Latte Dock Setup

Top Panel:

Mode: panel
Widgets (in order):
- Window Title Applet
- Global Menu
  - GTK / Electron Global Menu Panel Support:
    - sudo pacman -S appmenu-gtk-module appmenu-gtk-module
    - sudo pacman -S appmenu-gtk-module libdbusmenu-glib
- Spacer
- Digital Clock
- Spacer
- Application Icons (Drag icons from application launcher to panel to add)
- System Tray
- User Switcher

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