KDE Plasma. Installing KDE differs a bit from the other DE’s, since there are a few choices to install it the way you like it. For a minimal Plasma desktop install. sudo pacman -S plasma-desktop. For a full Plasma desktop install. sudo pacman -S plasma or. sudo pacman -S plasma-meta. for the extra packages install. sudo pacman -S kde The following contains a list of issues found when trying to run Plasma or KF5-based software in general under Wayland. kdeinit5 exits due to missing DISPLAY. kded5 just hangs there when started. Oxygen style works in windowed mode, falls back to Fusion in standalone. File open dialog unable to reach klauncher. From there, you should be able to simply install the DNF Group that contains KDE Plasma. To do that, enter the following command: sudo dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" "base-x" -y. It’s a large download (1.8 GB+), so you’ll want to have a coffee break planned while that downloads. If you hit any errors, there may be some repository KDE Desktop Environment and VNC Server Installation. Execute the one line code shown in below. This command will update first, and then TightVNC Server Software will be installed that provides you KDE and VNC connections: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y kubuntu-desktop tightvncserver Install icon theme from KDE system settings (click to expand image) Once done, choose the icon pack we installed and click apply at the bottom right to change to the new icons. To install icon themes manually, download and extract the icon’s tar file. After that, copy the contents to ~/.local/share/icons. General system. If you know you don’t want to run XFCE4 from the start, IMHO this is the cleanest way to remove XFCE and give the user a clean as possible Arch base install. IMHO the only thing cleaner would be to install Arch base the Arch Way, but then you wouldn’t have the EndevourOS components that Joe included. KDE Plasma desktop announced the new 5.27 release today! It’s a LTS release with support until 2024! Plasma 5.27 features new window tiling system.By enabling it in “System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects“, user can press and hold Shift key and then drag app windows to auto-resize and place them in the screen side by side. Do an update to make sure you have the most recent updates. dnf update -y. Enable the "code ready builds". sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb. Install KDE. sudo dnf -y groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" "base-x". reboot. Select your desktop environment at the login screen from the little "Setup" icon. This software allows a visual gui for touchegg -- the easiest install method I have found is to install it from flathub. Flathub also has a link on the first page to the quick setup guide. Since I run kubuntu 20.04 currently, I also add the repo in their quick guide to make sure I get the latest flatpak when installing. Plasma Desktop includes only the most commonly used applications, while KDE Full includes a wider range of applications. To install KDE Plasma Desktop run the following command: sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop. KDE Plasma Desktop takes about 2GB storage space on a fresh server install. Screenshot of KDE Plasma Desktop. 9QB9w.