Gnome Setup

Installation

pacman -S gnome-shell gnome-terminal gnome-control-center gnome-software gnome-menus gnome-shell-extensions gnome-system-monitor mutter gdm && systemctl enable gdm

Full Guide: Arch Linux on Nvidia

With multiple Desktops I like sddm more.

Extensions

• Application and KStatusNotifierItem Support (optional)
• Blur My Shell
• Just Perfection
• Dash to Dock
• Arc Menu
• Coverflow
• Impatience
• Gnome 4x UI Improvements
• Caffeine
• Tiling Shell (optional)
• Open Bar
• User Themes
• System Monitor
• Extension List

Extension Settings

Blur My Shell

• Default Rounded Pipeline: Radius 20, Brightness: 100
• Panel: Dynamic: 30, Sigma: Brightness: 1.00
• Applications: Opaque focused windows: off, Blur in overview: off, Enable all by default: on, Disable manually: browser

Dash to Dock

• Intelligent auto-hide: off
• Size: 32
• Menu moved to the left
• Show drives and devices: off
• Minimize appearance: on
• Window counter indicators: dots

Just Perfection

• Panel button spacing: 0px
• Panel indicator spacing: 2px
• Clock position: right + 6 to 9 px offset
• Dash icon size: 32px

Arc Menu

• Menu button: Arch
• Menu view: Startmenu: Runner
• Width: 450
• Height: 300

Open Bar

My OpenBar Configs

Commands

Extensions Manager Installation

flatpak install flathub com.mattjakeman.ExtensionManager

WhiteSur Theme

git clone https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-gtk-theme.git
cd WhiteSur-gtk-theme
./install.sh -l
cd ..
sudo rm -r WhiteSur-gtk-theme

Tokyonight Theme

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Fausto-Korpsvart/Tokyonight-GTK-Theme.git
cd Tokyonight-GTK-Theme/themes
./install.sh -l --tweaks black macos
cd ..
cd ..
sudo rm -r Tokyonight-GTK-Theme

Gnome Tweaks

• Do not change the font here — it's set through KDE Plasma. Changing it in GNOME can mess up the font rendering in Ptyxis if "apply system font" is used.
• Set the Shell theme to WhiteSur-Dark.
• Set the other theme to the Tokyonight theme — this way, all apps stay compact thanks to the WhiteSur shell styling, and everything else uses the Tokyo Night theme via the libadwaita system.

Zsh

sudo pacman -S zsh

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/powerlevel10k
echo 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >>~/.zshrc

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Terminal (Ptyxis)

sudo pacman -S ptyxis

gsettings set 'org.gnome.Ptyxis.Profile:/org/gnome/Ptyxis/Profiles/'$PTYXIS_PROFILE'/' 'opacity' '0.70'

yay -S ttf-dejavu-sans-mono-powerline-git

• Select this font for the Ptyxis terminal.

KDE Plasma

Installation

sudo pacman -S plasma konsole

Installations

yay kvantum

Details

• Install the Layan theme and the Kvantum version via the link in the settings from the theme description in the installation menu under settings
• Personalize the taskbar – it always changes on how I like to customize it
• (Maybe I will try Latte Dock in the future)

Settings

• Fensterverwaltung + Arbeitsflächen Effekte: still finding some:
• Schweben (hover effect)
• Transparenz: set everything to the same settings (very opaque)
• Verwischen (blur effect)
• Maybe some other effects in the future

Konsole

• In Settings, create a new profile and set it as default
• In Erscheinungsbild (Appearance), search for new color schemes
• I use the aritim-dark theme for now
• Then select the theme, click on edit, and set the background blur to something like 20

KDE Plasma 2

Theme

• Global Settings Theme: Utterly Nord + Utterly Nord Kvantum Theme
• Konsole Theme: Utterly Nord Solid with 40% Transparency

Desktop Effects

• Blur: everything at level 6 (from left)

General Things

Fonts

Inter Font

• I use the Semi Bold one

Mouse Cursor

• Bibata Cursor
• Windows XP Modern Cursor
• Maybe other cursors – I always like to change it a bit

Icons

yay tela-circle-icon-theme

Other Themes

• For "veraltete Anwendungen": GNOME macOS Tahoe
• or: Tokyonight GTK Theme

Taskbar (designed like a dock) and Top Bar

• Top Bar default layout from the Utterly theme but with the system menu removed
• Top Bar should have the grey icon from this repo
• The taskbar/dock should have the blue "andere" default Arch logo
• The taskbar/dock should keep the download shortcut

Fonts

sudo pacman -S ttf-jetbrains-mono-nerd noto-fonts noto-fonts-cjk noto-fonts-emoji ttf-dejavu ttf-liberation
yay -S ttf-unifont ttf-symbola

Screenshots (Images are not perfectly accurate)

KDE

KDE 2

Gnome

Gnome 2