This article describes how to configure the KDE desktop environment to look more aesthetically pleasing. Principle: Landscaping should not take a lot of time and toss, which is neither practical nor meaningful. The most cost-effective landscaping in the least amount of time is always the first principle. In the beautification part, you need to set the proxy before using the system settings function, such as downloading themes. Otherwise, the internet speed will be very slow or even unusable. After testing, it is necessary to redirect network connections to the proxy through proxychains or setting up a global transparent proxy.

proxychains systemsettings5 #Open system settings through proxy

Before and after the KDE-related software update, there have been problems of unstable/stuck third-party themes. Again, don't beautify the magic changes too much, which will add more uncertainty and reduce the stability of your desktop.

Right-click on the desktop and select Configure Desktop. In the new window that appears in the lower right corner, select Add Picture to select the picture you want. The 'Position' item selects 'Scale, maintain proportion', and the 'Background' item selects 'Blur'. This way you can have a beautiful desktop wallpaper that is proportional and has Gaussian blur on the edges.

Using a high-quality system theme can directly improve the aesthetics of the system. System settings > Appearance > Global themes > Get a new global theme , search for the theme layan, and set it. By the way, the author of this theme, vinceliuice, is a big Chinese and a designer. The quality of the themes and icons he designs are very high, you can go to his homepage to rate and like him.

If the Windows key cannot call out the menu after switching themes, you can right-click in the lower left corner, configure the program launcher, and reset the windows+F1 key in the keyboard shortcuts, and the Windows key will be displayed as the Meta key.

In system settings > appearance > window decoration, get the new window decoration, search for layan, and apply it.

If the icons in the theme don't satisfy you, you can choose some custom icons. System Settings > Appearance > Icons > Get New Icon Theme , search for the icon name Tela-icon-theme, and install it.

You should note that the default login screen when entering a password is ugly and can be replaced here as well. System Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Login Screen (SDDM) > Get New Login Screen , search for SDDM theme layan and set it

The welcome screen after the login interface can be beautified. System Settings > Appearance > Welcome Screen > Get New Welcome Screen , search for miku to set it up. This Snowy Night Miku is the initial interface of the best looking two-spined ape attribute we have searched. In addition, there is a big guy who has made some welcome screens of the second dimension theme, but the quality is average, here is his home page.

Right-click an empty space on the taskbar, select Edit Panel, and add widgets.

• Netspeed widget network speed component, this is very practical
• todolist task component

Then you can pin the software you often use to the taskbar.

After the KDE Plasma 5.22.1 update, an additional installation of ksysguard is required to ensure the proper functioning of the desktop plugin. [1]

System Settings > Display and Monitoring > Mixer Turn on the mixer

Open konsole, go to settings > edit current scheme > appearance , select Red-Black to apply and confirm.

Themes work with Kvantum Manager to achieve better results.

sudo pacman -S kvantum

Download Layan's Kvantum theme from here and unzip it. Open Kvantum Manager, select the theme and install it, then select Layan in Change/Delete Theme, Use this theme. Finally, in the system settings, select kvantum in the application style in the appearance.

If the transparent effect is not displayed, make sure that the global scale of KDE is an integer multiple. Or try toggling the openGL settings in the mixer.

Official Documentation

Select and download the GRUB theme you want at pling, such as this two-stinged salamander theme. Next, cd into the unzipped folder, open konsole and enter

sudo cp -r . /usr/share/grub/themes/Nino

to place the theme in the system's GRUB default folder. Then edit the /etc/default/grub file, find the #GRUB_THEME= line, remove the previous comment, and point to the theme's theme.txt file. which is

#GRUB_THEME=
GRUB_THEME="/usr/share/grub/themes/Nino/theme.txt" #After modification

and then type in the terminal

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Update GRUB and restart.

Plymouth is a project from the Fedora community that provides the function of beautifying the startup GUI. If necessary, you can refer to the official document to configure. Novices are not advised to spend too much time on this configuration.

The rest of the KDE desktop has many configuration items, you can explore by yourself.