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.
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