KDE Plasma Installation

Base KDE Plasma packages for the full Plasma experience. Bundle with other packages to prevent package conflicts providing the same functionality.

TIP: Include any and all packages you want installed in a list to pacman. That way pacman will resolve package dependencies correctly and not install packages that would cause conflicts with other packages later on in the setup; e.g. the plasma group installs pulseaudio as a dependency of plasma-pa, but pulseaudio and pipewire (see below) are conflicting packages, meaning they can't both be installed at the same time prompting you to remove one or the other. Explicitly selected packages take precedence over packages auto-selected via dependencies.

pacman -S plasma plasma-wayland-session kde-applications 

Setting up display manager

Start SDDM on boot

Start the Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) on boot to be presented with a graphical login screen.

systemctl enable sddm

Set Keymap for SDDM

NOTE: Executing this command while chrooted into an installation will produce an error that the locale could not be found. Set after rebooting the system, press CTRL + ALT + F3 when SDDM shows up (or any F-key between 2 and 7) to switch tty, log in via the command line and execute the command as root.

localectl set-x11-keymap de

Generate well-known user directories

xdg-user-dirs-update

Misc additional packages

Additional packages you might want:

Name	Description
freerdp	Support for the Remote Desktop Protocol used for remote login to MS Windows machines
kimageformats	Support for additional image formats in Dolphin and Gwenview
ksshaskpass	ssh-add helper that uses kwallet and kpassworddialog
fwupd	Firmware update manager; allows UEFI capsule updates in Discover if supported by firmware
packagekit-qt5	Manage Arch packages in Discover
appstream-qt	Adds AppStream support for Discover

pacman -S freerdp kimageformats ksshaskpass fwupd packagekit-qt5