How I Customized my KDE Plasma Desktop

Gaurav Bhardwaj
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Recently I've posted a screenshot of how I customized my KDE Plasma Desktop on Reddit, received a great number of upvotes and comments. I already made a promise for publishing a guide after receiving positive feedback. So I am keeping my promise by adding a video guide so that it can be easily customized even by a Linux novice.

Before jumping to video lets install some pre-requisites.

1. Installing Latte Dock:

If you already have latte dock installed in your system please skip this step. Otherwise, you can install it according to your distribution, visiting official KDE Github link.

https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock

 

2. Downloading Wallpaper:

You can download No Man's Sky Wallpaper visiting below link:

http://i.imgur.com/VKXmwtk.jpg

 

3. Installing San Francisco Pro Font:

You can download San Francisco Pro font using below link:

https://github.com/sahibjotsaggu/San-Francisco-Pro-Fonts/blob/master/SF-Pro-Display-Regular.otf

That's all about prerequisites, now you can execute the steps by watching the below video.

 

Follow the below video to See How I customize my KDE Plasma Desktop.

 

Customized KDE Plasma Desktop Video Guide

 

**Optional Step: Setting up super key to invoke Top Panel's Application Menu

 

Edit File ~/.config/kwinrc and add content below

[ModifierOnlyShortcuts] Meta=org.kde.lattedock,/Latte,org.kde.LatteDock,activateLauncherMenu

 

Reload KWin

 

qdbus org.kde.KWin /KWin reconfigure

Ever, wonder to customize your Linux Desktop like Mac OS. Follow this post.

 

If you still have any question or suggestion. Please feel free to drop a comment below. Will be happy to help you :).


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