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Building The Ultimate KDE Desktop With Arch Linux (Part 2)

[ Thanks to Jeremy
LaCroix
for this link. ]

“Make Sure You’re Up To Date
Before we go on, make sure all of the packages you have now are all
up to date. If your kernel updates during this process, make sure
you reboot. Execute the following command to update your system:

sudo pacman -Syu

“After that, your system should be up to date. Now, we’re
ready to continue!

“GTK Integration
First, let’s take care of something that I find very
annoying. KDE uses the Qt toolkit for its apps, and GNOME uses
GTK+. The problem here is that if you install a GTK+ application (I
am actually going to recommend a few) it will look out of place in
KDE. So to fix this ahead of time, first enter the following
command with Konsole: sudo pacman -S qtcurve-gtk2
gtk-qt-engine”

Complete
Story

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