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Replacing KDE plasma with Xfce4

How to replace KDE plasma with Xfce4 desktop environment completely

Re: Replacing KDE plasma with Xfce4

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Quote from: mardiyah – on
How to replace KDE plasma with Xfce4 desktop environment completely

You take a hammer, eventually a screwdriver, and pound the squared peg in the round hole. Simples!

Or, you read for once the manual for pacman.

Re: Replacing KDE plasma with Xfce4

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Read section ### how to enable the Universe repositories
from https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories

## So then the procedure is :

pacman -S xed
xed /etc/pacman.conf

Add at the end:

[universe]
Server = https://universe.artixlinux.org/$arch
Server = https://mirror1.artixlinux.org/universe/$arch
Server = https://mirror.pascalpuffke.de/artix-universe/$arch
Server = https://mirrors.qontinuum.space/artixlinux-universe/$arch
Server = https://mirror1.cl.netactuate.com/artix/universe/$arch
Server = https://ftp.crifo.org/artix-universe/$arch
Server = https://artix.sakamoto.pl/universe/$arch

## then

pacman -Syu

pacman -S trizen
pacman -S octopi

## install full group :

pacman -S xfce4
pacman -S xfce4-goodies

then now you can log out & log in again with XFCE

if you need it :
pacman -S chromium
pacman -S firefox

There is extra config to make XFCE more usable.
I'll write it if someone request it


### important thing to do for QT applications:

Otherwise they won't launch and you will get error messages like "cannot register existing type 'GdkDisplayManager"

in  .xsessionrc add:  
(you can create the file)

```
QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=gtk3
```

this could be kvantum instead of gtk3 but you need to install kvantum