title: KDE Plasma Setup Notes
tags: kde kubuntu

# Settings
* Task Switcher: change to thumbnail grid.
* Virtual Desktops:
    * 2 rows of 4 columns
    * Disable wrap
    * Name desktops
    * Disable animation and grid
* Activities
    * Default and new activity -- assign to win+0=default and win+9=other
* Screen Locking
    * (Less secure) disable lock timeout, only lock after sleep. Remove shortcut as we rarely lock.
* Power
    * If running long job on battery, disable Suspend Session (not by default)
    * Disable Dim Screen and Screen Energy Saving if we want to keep the screen on (not by default)
* Input Devices
    * Touchpad
        * Invert Scrolling, two-finger right click, left+right for middle click
        * Keyboard: Advanced: compose key = right alt
* Appearance
    * Theme: Breeze Dark
    * Color Scheme
        * Clone Breeze Dark to Breeze Dark Jda and modify to highlight active title bar (see below)

# Clone and modify Color Scheme
```
mkdir color-schemes
cp /usr/share/color-schemes/BreezeDark.colors ~/.local/share/color-schemes/JdaBreezeDark.colors
```
Find line `ColorScheme=BreezeDark` and rename to `JdaBreezeDark`, remove language translations.
Find section `[Colors:Header]`. and change the `BackgroundAlternate` and `BackgroundNormal` lines
to `0,0,90` for darkish blue.
```
[Colors:Header]
BackgroundAlternate=0,0,90
BackgroundNormal=0,0,90
#BackgroundAlternate=42,46,50
#BackgroundNormal=49,54,59
```

# Keyboard Shortcuts
## General Changes
Go through Kwin, Plasma, and Krunner shortcuts and change them
so that they all use Meta, not just Ctrl or Alt. This frees up Ctrl and Alt
for applications to make use of.

## App shortcuts
```
win+t = konsole
win+w = chrome   # reassign Toggle Overview to win+shift+w
win+shift+n = kate     # on Windows this gets us notepad++ via autohotkey
win+n = gvim
win+1 = libreoffice writer
win+2 = libreoffice calc
win+3 = reaper
win+4 = gimp
win+5 = cadence
win+6 = renoise
```

## Removing Shortcuts
Change all Kwin, Plasma, KRunner, Spectacle, Session Management, and others so that all window/session management shortcuts use
Meta, so that all non-Meta combos are guaranteed to go to the focused application.

## Bobbins
I generally have a script, e.g. `bobbins` to which I assign many custom shortcuts,
passing the combo as an argument. Then I can do a `case...esac` to do something based
on the shortcut. This then means I can programmatically change what the shortcut
does without opening Settings.

[bobbins.kde](bobbins.kde) 

## Schmerp
I have a simple launcher written in Python and Tk that I call `schmerp` (so as to be unlikely
to have a name clash with anything else). [See here](/lang/python/tk/examples/SimpleLauncher_01).

## Schema
[My Shortcut Schema kda5jda.kksrc](kde5jda.kksrc) 

# Konsole
## Settings
Tabs on top; close at right of tab bar (avoids mouse slips)
## Shortcuts
Use shift-left/right to switch tabs, remove all other shortcuts.
* Remove Last Used Tabs
* Remove "move tab left/right" Ctrl-Alt-left/right (we use this in tmux to switch panes)
* Remove ctrl-pgup/pgdn as aliases for shift-left/right and we use ctrl+pgup/down for vim tabs
* Remove alt-number tab shortcuts

[konsole.shortcuts](konsole.shortcuts)