Customizing KDE Plasma: How To Edit Panels And Layout
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video, I show you how to customize your Plasma Panels by adding and editing widgets, moving and resizing panels, as well as creating new panels for a macOS-like experience in KDE Plasma.
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Thank-you for fully committing to the joke by never acknowledging the HM distro👏👏
LOL thanks! I made a joke about making a video with this theming to Ryan (from Destination Linux) and he challenged me to do it so I had no choice but to accept the challenge and prove I'm ridiculous. I thought it would be even funnier to never comment on it so glad that worked. :D
Is that Hannah Montana Linux? Lmfao
yes and no. :D Hannah Montana Linux doesn't exist anymore. I made this as a new version of it so it is but not what people knew it to be this is a modern version of it that I made for no real reason at all. :D
The cost of a Linux KDE Plasma Desktop is Free.
Hannah Montana KDE is priceless.
Lol agreed 🤣 although it did take me some time to create it so I guess that is part of the cost :)
@@michael_tunnell Did you create the wallpaper?
Yes, although I didn't create the base image. I found it and added the photo to it. So yes and no.
I did make the rest of the theme myself though :)
now we are talking Great Video keep it coming
Would love a latte dock video. Great video.
As great as latte is is very buggy with dual screens and hidpi monitors to the point it's a system breaker
You should probably do a latte dock video. Mainly because at this point in time, I actually don't even use regular kde panels anymore. It's that useful xD
I used to do that as well but there was a period where latte dock had a memory leak and became an issue for me but this was a while ago. I'll certainly put this on my list to make a video for
+1 for Latte Dock. I use it as a dock and as a replacement for the default KDE panel.
Best Explained Video of all time. I was weirded out by the bugged out panel when I added/removed anything. I used to reinstall the os everytime that happened. Now I know that I just had to add a spacer.😪😶🌫
Thanks for the feedback, I glad I could help.
Latte Dock is so awesome. It can be jank, but the customization are amazing. And I consider it necessity until we have Drag Panel to Drag Window in native KDE panel. Plus, all the other stuff psifidotos make like the Window Title-Button-Appmenu combo... Garuda introducing me to these meant that I just can't go back anymore to not using them man.
I replaced my panels with latte dock in the past as well. It's very cool. I switched back to panels when I had issues due to a memory leak bug but this was a long time ago so I should absolutely revisit it
@@michael_tunnell Off the top of my head, Garuda Linux, XeroLinux, and FerenOS has some interesting OOTB utilization of latte so I think they're good to use as reference for what can be done with it even if you're not interested in installing it.
@@michael_tunnell I've used latte both a few years ago, and recently, and I've noticed significantly less system drag from it. You might consider giving it a shot again.
This seems sick af.
Thanks for your guide.
My grand daughter would love this desktop.
amazing!!
I like how compact the video is and you go straight to the point. This video is jam-packed with tips or explanations. Timestamps would have been great.
Thanks. Timestamps will be added later but I didn't have time to do them yet
@@michael_tunnell any timestamps now?
PLEASE! Do a video about Latte Dock!
Thank you very much for the feedback, I have put a latte dock video on my list to do
... Classy. Thanks lot.
At some point I’ll figure out how to swap out the hideous dictionary widget and calendar 📅 icons. Plasma is way better than XP. Best desktop out there!
Thanks
Normally I give a thumbs up at the end of the video, if I liked it. In this case however, you got it the moment I saw Hannah Montana Linux. 😂
And of course the Golden Girls T-shirt would have gotten an extra thumbs up, if that was possible. 😉
Lol awesome, thanks 😎👍 also quick note, this is a modern redesign of Hannah Montana Linux that I created like a 2.0 :)
@@michael_tunnell Yes, of course, I know. I am aware of the ongoing joke (from recent years) about the call for a re-release. And I loved how you'd taking up this glove.
I won't be making a distro but I might release the info about how to do it lol
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I just want to let you know that in my experience, when I've done a lot of playing with alternative app menus, or especially deleting and then recreating a panel, losing super key functionality has been inevitable. In these cases, even having alt+F1 set has not recovered that function. I've been able to recover it using a small terminal app called ksuperkey running on startup. On a friend's system, this caused it to open only when the super key was held, and would close on release (he's running Garuda which uses fish, maybe it handles the application differently, and that's why but I don't know) so for him I just set it to run, and, immediately kill ksuperkey afterward and it runs perfectly regardless of changes. I hope this will help anyone who's lost their super key functionality.
Thank you for the awesome video! The "Tap to click" option under touchpad setting is grayed out...is it a KDE bug?
Do a Latte Dock video!
Been running Manjaro KDE full time for a couple years now and learned a few things here.
I'm glad you found it useful 😎👍
You should check out my video about the 17 plasma tips that you might not have heard about
@@michael_tunnell Looking for it now.
@@michael_tunnell Also I just subscribed.
Awesome! Thank you so much for subscribing! I hope you enjoy the content
Nice video on KDE. I tried few tips you told since I'm on plasma 5.27.5.
1. Alt + F1 doesn't activate super key to launcher. I tried show alternatives and selected dashboard which I'm unable to reverse.
2. The panel cannot be made transparent. Dock is not available in KDE.
I do not have the "show alternatives" when I right click the Task bar! How do you get that?
I just installed KDE from there website a few days ago! SO I am new! :)
You don't click on the task bar you click on the items you want alternatives for like the main menu / start menu, click on that directly.
I don't understand how you could install KDE from their website, they don't offer a download like that. What Linux distro are you using?
Late to the party, but if Latte Dock is stable and doesn't break stuff, it would be cool to see a video about it.
I think Latte Dock is either discontinued or not currently ported to Plasma 6 because all the info I can find for it these days talks about Plasma 5.
Hannah Montana OS 2.0 FTW!
She staring into my soul with that empty smile. So creepy.
But i really like the video 👍!
We can now make KDE Plasma look l ike Unity with Latte Dock. I think this is what Unity should have been. Perhaps Canonical will come to their senses and do this.
I have a unity setup without latte dock, I just use default panels but latte dock is pretty freaking cool. :)
I made a video about them switching to KDE Plasma would be better but sadly no response from them. 🤷
@@michael_tunnell I still this wish they would switch to KDE. KDE project would also benefit.
Is it possible to change the task manager so that the background is an image instead of a solid color?
It might be possible through a look and feel theme but I’ve not tried it myself
Great video. Very helpful for this newbie.
Would someone please explain how to modify the background color of a panel? Thanks.
This is done via the global theme system but it's not easy to explain in text. I could add it to my list to do a video on if you want
@@michael_tunnell Yes please. I would also like to change the colour of the Task Manager panel while keeping everything else the same, if possible. Thanks.
How to resize the Status and notifications window? Almost half of it is just empty space...
Could you help me out?
I'd like to create separate desktops for different purposes. So, I could have one desktop for system files, the terminal, CPU stats etc. Have all of those apps pinned to the taskbar on desktop #1. Then have desktop #2 with only web browsers pinned to the task bar and excluding any of the apps on desktop #1. Finally, I'd like to have desktop #3 with only Libreoffice applications and exclude any apps on desktop #1 & 2.
How would I do that?
I'd imagine you'd want Latte Dock for that. Despite the name, it include panels too. I'm not sure about the pinned apps one, might need to mess around with panel position and unique groups for app launchers. But changing the desktop tracking settings should be easy on latte.
You can do it via plasma panels but it is not a easy thing to explain in text. Might need to make this a video. This could also invoke Windows Rules to force where apps load
Isn't that what Plasma Activities are for? I'm not sure though if Activities still exist in current KDE Plasma version.
Yes activities do offer this and yes they do still exist in plasma. It's also possible without activities but that is a great point as they might make it easier to do
Ever time I try KDE I end up messing up my panel, at the start of this video I had 5 Brave icons and 2 settings icons but the end of it I somehow removed my panel completely and I tried to add it back now just have a blank panel! I don't know if I'm dumb or KDE just isn't designed well. I find this stuff much easier to do in Gnome and Xfce.
KDE Plasma gives much more control to the user vs GNOME which gives none by default and makes you jump through hoops to add extensions. This is a pro and a con for both DEs. If you right click the desktop you can add a panel back fairly easily and also choose Default Panel to get the panel back with default widgets. As for the changes being wonky, I suggest doing the actions a bit slower because going fast might result in some unintended elements being clicked. Please try that and let me know.
Uh...oh...nice 🙂
Thank you for the great video. I am having an issue where I accidentally added two weather widgets to the system tray and I go to deplete them, they disappear, however when I log out and back in the two widgets reappear in the system tray. Furthermore, when I go into configure system tray and then click on edit entries tab, the all the entries delete buttons are grayed out, I cannot delete anything. The weather report is in the list and disabled, but I cannot delete it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also where did you get that shirt in the video, I need one? Thank you!
Which distro are you using and which version of KDE Plasma?
The shirt was sent by a TWILLER as a joke challenging me to wear it on an episode, clearly I'm happy to wear it lol
@@michael_tunnell My distro is Nobara Linux 36 (KDE Plasma) and Plasma version 5.26.4. Thank you!
@@michael_tunnell I believe I have solved the issue regarding the weather widget not staying removed from the KDE system tray once I removed it. Doing research on the internet I found an article referring to “Widget on the desktop (KDE) cannot be removed.” They where talking about editing the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file and removing the offending widget code. So I edited my org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file and found 2 instances of the weather widget and removed those lines of code, saved the file and logged out and back in and no more weather widget in the KDE system tray!
yes but how do you get the task bar panel I lost mine...
Right click desktop for panel edit mode activation, Add new panel, choose “Default Panel”
@@michael_tunnell ty
You’re welcome 😎👍
How do you get the clock in a 24 hour format? Also I could never get ntp sync to work , it asks for a password which should be the root password - but it still fails
right click the digital clock widget, choose Configure Digital Clock, in the Appearance section change the setting for Time Display then click OK.
I just configure my menu button to Super+Esc just like it is in Windows. It still works if you press (and release) only Super.
Oh that's cool, didn't know that would still work with that. Thanks for the info
I thought you were going to show how to change the color. Where can i find that?
I didn't explain that because its part of the Global Theme system not the Panel system so its out of scope of this video because of that. If you want a dock to use in KDE Plasma then that would be Latte Dock and it allows you to customize the colors of it directly in the dock settings. In order to customize the panels themselves then you can go to the KDE Store and check out the Plasma Themes store.kde.org/browse?cat=104&ord=latest
When is KDE going to fix auto hide when you want a panel to behave like a dock, but that panel is on a shared screen edge in a multi-monitor setup?
Good question. I'm not sure. You might need to check for a bug report or submit one
You don't explain the hardest thing to find. How to change the color of the task panels. Is it complicated? On the Mac the top panel is grayish, while the dock is settable transparency. Can you suggest how to do it?
I didn't explain that because its part of the Global Theme system not the Panel system so its out of scope of this video because of that. If you want a dock to use in KDE Plasma then that would be Latte Dock and it allows you to customize the colors of it directly in the dock settings. In order to customize the panels themselves then you can go to the KDE Store and check out the Plasma Themes store.kde.org/browse?cat=104&ord=latest
How to change icon size in task manager ?
Right click, go into panel edit mode, resize the panel and then the icons should resize based on the size of the panel.
You really need to do MANY more of these.... I love KDE- but it's easy to F... up if one doesn't know what the hell he's doing- and I DON"T.. ha. THANKS GREAT VIDEO- and look forward t seeing many more like it.
how to make panles tranparent
What's really confusing is, that there is an option for the apps in the start menu: "add to panel" and "pin to task-manager". Why? If you say "add to panel" it puts the icons on the left and "pin to task-manager" puts them on the right. That's kind of stupid. An app is not a widget and you can even have two icons in the task bar for the same app.
They are used for slightly different purposes because if you add to panel then it makes it a widget vs pinning it to the task bar. I agree it is a bit confusing to have these kinds of options but it's more about flexibility of plasma but sure there are some things that might feel a bit unnecessary
My eyes bled because of HM's red intensive theme but KDE is awesome. :)
Is Hannah Montana Linux coming back? I'm asking for a friend.
No sadly it isn't. I made this version of it for the video to mess around. I suppose I could release it though lol
... 💙
no sponsor? thumbs up for a change.
Next video I'll be sure to include a sponsor
@@michael_tunnell hehe, thanks for the tutorial btw.
do you have one with making KDE look sexier? for example i do like zorin os but it's too limited in tweakability.
i do not have one yet but it is only list.
Great video content, but I can't recommend it to business friends because of the lollipop theme. I don't want those folks to get the wrong idea that Plasma is for kiddies.
I understand. I knew it was slightly risky to do this but it was amusing to me. The rest of my videos will be a bit more serious when it comes to the visuals. :D
@@michael_tunnell Great, thanks. You do such a good job of clearly explaining how to do a, b and c that it was a pity I had to hold back on my immediate response to want to send a link to some other business folks.
if you present as "this guy is a fun dude and is so confident with his content that he can make the visuals whatever and make a quality video". :D That might work
@@michael_tunnell Heh, could be worth a shot, but... not with that t-shirt (joking, RIP Betty.)
I shared it with my business folks and fellow developers, because I am fortunate to not work with the humorless or stodgy.
Hannah Montana so big of a distraction. Stop staring at me!!
but.....why Hannah Montana Linux?
Why not? 😎👍
Although seriously, I did it to amuse myself. This distro also doesn't exist, I created this modern rebuild of it lol
BUT WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY HANA MOUNTANA?!?!?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!
Haha
@@michael_tunnell It's just too creepy! (
Hannah Montana, The Golden Girls and lots of pink and glitz ! Linux (and KDE) is not just for fat, sweaty neck-beards
latte is dead :(
That is unfortunate to happen since I made that video but now it’s much less important because normal panels can be used as docks in KDE Plasma 6 😎👍
Nice video… gotta say though Miley… a little creepy…
It's a joke because there used to be a Hannah Montana Linux distro
Your channel settings deletes my comments.
This is inaccurate. Maybe TH-cam is hiding the comments for some reason but nothing on my end is causing it
@@michael_tunnell I sent you my questions on twitter today. Please help me by answering them because searching files on Linux is so slow compared to my experience on Win 10.
@@encapsulatio answered on Twitter and also for those reading here . . . I'll paste the answer here too.
use KDE's file searching app called KFind. It is Awesome! It is very fast and also very customizable to do a wide variety of search types.
apps.kde.org/kfind/ and there's a flatpak for it too.
ewww!
thanx!