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Documented on the Arch wiki for months now.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/KDE#Starting_Plasma
Starting from Plasma 6.4, the Wayland session has matured enough to become the default and preferred one: the X11 session is only available separately with the plasma-x11-session package…
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME
It uses Wayland, and the available sessions are…
In my experience:
Breaking manjaro is the gateway to a vanilla Arch install
Clickbait title: They’re not urging folks not to Update, they’re urging folks to read the known issues and workarounds page because gnome and plasma are both killing X11 support.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2025-12-08-25-1-anh-linh-preview/183479
Weirdly, my Arch System has a bog-standard absolutely uncustomized kde plasma install.
Its the Debian system which has been customized to hell and back with i3 and lxqt. I’d like to switch to sway but my gpu does NOT like wayland.
So like, inverted show/hide?
I’m not sure I understand, I’d be interested in seeing it though, it sounds peculiar and I love (for novelty) peculiar UIs
I just saw your v.8 update that looks sick! I agree the noti-panel stuff may not be possible with just a theme on Plasma, about half of my customization experience is with lxqt and not plasma so I forget what is possible where sometime.
OH! I actually don’t think that’s possible without some kludging.
You could make a panel for each icon, have them side by side, and use Panel Colorizer to make them grow on hover, but that’s mega-tedious. Totally doable though. I’d hate to see plasma’s ram requirements with like 9 panels each being monitored for activity though, I suspect the performance on that setup would be rough.
In edit mode when changing the location of the bar there should be an option for “fit content” under height
Example: (sorry about the moire pattern, low res screen)
From what I understand Yugioh suffers from an extreme lack of keywording, meaning every mechanic used is explained on every card which uses it, because no keywords.
I’m not sure ‘That’s A Lot If Words’ could win a game of Magic, but it could certainly win a Yugioh comp.
Latte has been deprecated because its features are (afict) all now included in the base plasma panels.
You can make extra panels, have them float, have them dynamically change size, use panel colorizer to retheme only one (if desired).
On my ultraportable I’ve got a sidebar and a lower dock. The sidebar has actively running apps, my menu bar for open windows, a big honkin app launcher button, and my notification panel. My dock has all my frequently used apps, and some shortcuts to frequently used websites. All just minimal plasma-session + panel colorizer.
Agreed on the taskbar. If they added ‘bevels’ to the edges to give it that depth that Win98 had then maybe, but this taskbar looks flatter than Windows 8.1 as is.
Honestly as a whole it kinda just looks like Windows 10 with all the visuals turned off in the performance settings, which is fine, but its not what OP was going for.
If it were me, I’d spend some time in Gimp to make a custom start icon with the text on it, then go for a smaller taskbar, about 3/4 this height. I’d add a line of shading around the top and side of the taskbar and the buttons, and figure out how to retheme the notification panel to be the same shaded color so it appears depressed into the bar.
Windows 95/98 had a design philosophy which was meant to emulate the office, the literal desktop. Desks are 3D and have features, even the simplest ones usually at least have trim at the edges to break up the color. Its too flat. Too sterile.
Funfact regarding the New River:
The Cartographers charting the river had it marked by the direction it flows, NE-W, eventually this just stuck as the name.
Isn’t it MMMIM? Only one extra character
In case anyone thought it was a good idea from the article image:
Dont put goldfish next to your gaming rig, you’ll cook it with the excess heat.
An electric keyboard with a built in metronome to play with helped me to cement a rhythm, then time in my head. Playing at 60bpm helps to cement what 1 second feels like. From there the foundation builds. 60 beats is a minute, most songs are 3 minutes, that’s 180 beats.
Can you not talk about my porn habits in public? Thanks.