Useful Tweaks in CachyOS with KDE Plasma

FAQ and Tutorials
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These are my prefered tweaks. Feel free to add your own.

Change Keyboard Shortcuts:

System Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts

Cycle through Browser Tabs: Ctrl + Tab

System Montitor: Meta/Windows Key + Esc

System Settings: Meta/Windows Key + I

Terminal: Meta/Windows Key + T

Lock Session / Screen: Meta/Windows Key + L

Close Window: ALT + F4

Black screen fix or if Monitor doesn’t wake up:

Ctrl + Alt + F3 → Wait a second and then Ctrl + Alt + F2

Kill Window, Close any crashed App, Game:

Meta/Windows Key + Ctrl + Esc

I changed it to Ctrl + Alt + K

System Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Window Management → Kill Window

Shut Down:

System Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Session Management → Shut Down Without Confirmation → Add a Keyboard Shortcut → Ctrl + Alt + End

Reboot:

System Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Session Management → Reboot Without Confirmation → Add a Keyboard Shortcut → Ctrl + Alt + Page Down

Edit the names of several files at once:

Select all the files with the Mouse → F2

Add Fonts:

System Settings → Text & Fonts → Font Management → Get New Fonts…

Wallpaper Slideshow:

System Settings → Wallpaper → Wallpaper type → Slideshow

Disable Blur:

System Settings → Windows Management → Desktop Effects → Blur

and

Right Click on the Taskbar / Task Manager → “Show Panel Configuration” → Opacity → Translucent

Enable Window Previews and Tooltips:

System Settings → Genral Behavior → Allow Plasma to show → Panel and widget tooltips

And on the Taskbar

Right Click on “Configure Icons-Only Task Manager” → Apperance → “Show small window previews when hovering over tasks”

Change Mouse Hover Time to show Tooltips and Window Previews on the Taskbar / Task Manager in Terminal:

kwriteconfig6 --file ~/.config/plasmarc --group PlasmaToolTips --key Delay 100

Mouse Middle Click on the Taskbar opens a second Window or a second App Instance:

Right Click on “Configure Icons-Only Task Manager” → Behavior → “Middle-clicking any task” → “Opens a new window”

Taskbar / Task Manager Dodge:

Right Click on the Taskbar / Task Manager → “Show Panel Configuration” → Visibility → “Dodge Windows”

Keep Windows above other Windows:

Right click on the Window Titlebar → “More Actions” → “Keep Above Others”

or

System Settings → Colors & Themes → Window Decorations → “Configure Titlebar Buttons…” → Click and Drag “Keep above other Windows” to Titlebar → Apply

Now every window has a ^ button on the Titlebar

Disable shutdown, restart and logout confirmation / timer:

System Settings → Session → uncheck Ask for conformation

Session Restore, set if you want to reopen apps after restart or not:

System Settings → Session → Session Restore → Start with an empty session

Power Management, change the behavior of the PC Power Button:

System Settings → Power Management → When power button pressed → Shut down

Disable Clipboard:

Right Click on System Tray “Show hidden icons” → Select “Configure System Tray…” → General → Clipboard → Never show (disabled)

Delete the Terminal - Konsole Fish Cache / History - Go Fish

Go to: ~/.local/share/fish/ and delete the file “fish_history”

Update your System with Cachy-Updater and with Pacman. Pacman will update additional Packages:

sudo pacman -Syu

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Disable Thumbnail pictures on Folders:

In Dolphin: Settings → “Configure Dolphin” → Interface → Previews → uncheck “Folders”

On Desktop: Right click on Desktop → “Desktop and Wallpaper” → Icons → “Configure Preview Plugins…” → uncheck “Folders”

If you want each folder to have its own folder settings. Like sort, “View settings”, “Size of Icons”

In Dolphin: Settings → “Configure Dolphin…” → View → General → “Remember display style for each folder”

I have a bug in Dolphin, if set too only one folder specific. Then any changes won’t get saved. Maybe it works for you. If not, delete the file dolphinrc in /.config. Close and open Dolphin and leave it for all folders.

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Turn on NumLock on startup:

System Settings → Keyboard → “NumLock on startup:” → select “Turn on”

Fix Linux - Windows Time Difference:

In Windows change the Time to UTC if you mostly use Linux.

If you use Professional Software, this can cause Problems in Windows. Either use the Linux method or you can try set the Time Sync Server to .gov.

  1. Navigate to Settings > Time & language > Date & time and turn Set time automatically to Off.

  2. Open the Registry Editor by searching for “Registry Editor” in the Windows Search.

    Navigate to the following path:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /SYSTEM /CurrentControlSet /Control/TimeZoneInformation.

  3. Create a New Registry Value:

    Right-click in the right-hand pane, then select New DWORD (32-bit) Value.

    Name the new value RealTimeIsUniversal and set the value data to 1 (Hexadecimal).

or just reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" /v RealTimeIsUniversal /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f

Reboot to check.

Or in Linux change the Time to Local Time, if you mostly use Windows. While this isn’t recommended and it can cause an Hour Delay at Winter / Summer Time Changes. I never had a Problem with that.

Run in Terminal:

timedatectl set-local-rtc 1 --adjust-system-clock

and disable all time synchronization daemons.

Link to Arch Wiki

Link to CachyOS Forum Post

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Disable Windows Fast Startup / Boot in Windows (Fast Startup can cause Problems in Linux with the Hardware):

In Windows: Control Panel → (Hardware and Sound) → Power Options → “Choose what the power button does” → “Change settings that are currently unavailable” → uncheck “Turn on fast startup”

or easier:

In Windows: Start Menu → Type: CMD → Right Click on it → “Run as administrator” → Type: powercfg /h off → Enter

See here for Details Link