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★ 51Audience · generalComplexity · 2/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

Write-up of a black-and-white monochrome KDE Plasma desktop rice on CachyOS, with a zip of configs and a list of widgets, fonts, and themes used.

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    Inputs
      CachyOS install
      KDE Plasma
      Theme assets
    Outputs
      Monochrome desktop
      Panel layout
      Config zip
    Use Cases
      Replicate the rice
      Pick monochrome assets
      Inspiration for KDE rices
    Tech Stack
      KDE Plasma
      CachyOS
      fish
      Nerd Fonts
      Zen browser
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Reproduce a monochrome KDE Plasma desktop on CachyOS or another Arch base

USE CASE 2

Pick the Plasma widgets used here for a similar dual-panel island layout

USE CASE 3

Use the listed Zen browser mods and Firefox extensions for a transparent browser look

USE CASE 4

Borrow the JetBrainsMono Nerd Font and cool-retro-term setup for a matching terminal

What is it built with?

KDE PlasmaCachyOSfishZen

How does it compare?

agridyne/dotfiles-dtalexvilelabah/bah-browserjoshuakgoldberg/eslint-plugin-erasable-syntax-only
Stars515151
Language—TypeScriptTypeScript
Last pushed——2026-07-01
Maintenance——Active
Setup difficultymoderateeasyeasy
Complexity2/52/52/5
Audiencegeneralvibe coderdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 1h+

No real dotfiles repo yet, only a zip and a written overview, so manual reassembly is needed.

In plain English

This repo is a write-up of the author's desktop rice, which is the community term for a heavily customized Linux desktop. It is not a working dotfiles repository yet. The README is explicit that the author has not extracted their dotfiles into the repo, only a .zip file and a written overview, with a promise to add a proper in-depth guide later. It is described as the author's first tutorial of this kind. The base system is CachyOS, an Arch-based distribution, running the KDE Plasma desktop environment. The look is built around a black and white monochrome theme. The starting point is the Monochrome KDE global theme by pwyde, with the matching SDDM login screen, plus a monochrome icon set by dirn, Bibata-Modern-Ice cursors, the dotLock boot splash, and a Kuro the cat splash screen. Application, Plasma, and window decoration styles are kept as the default Breeze. The panel uses several Plasma widgets. CatWalkR places a small cat in the top-right panel, KDE control station provides a menu, Kurve runs as an audio visualizer on the left, and YoRHa HUD plus Thermal Monitor sit on the right for system monitoring. Panel Colorizer is used with two panels (top and bottom) configured into islands using preset folders that the author tells you to copy into ~/.config/panel-colorizer/presets/. A default System Monitor widget sits at the top left and a digital clock on the desktop itself. The system font is JetBrainsMono Nerd Font set globally, the shell is fish (with a plan to move to zsh), and the terminal is cool-retro-term, with the author's exported JSON config attached for import. The browser is Zen, customized for a transparent background by following an external guide and pairing it with the kwin-effects-forceblur KWin effect, plus a list of Firefox extensions (Bonjourr, Dark Reader, Zen Internet) and Zen mods like Animations Plus, Better Find Bar, and Transparent Zen. The README ends with a list of work-in-progress items: ricing Vivaldi, Vencord, and vim, converting all app icons to monochrome, finishing the SDDM login screen and a video-based lock screen, and a custom fastfetch. Two wallpaper links from desktophut.com are included. The repo is presented as a living document that will grow as the setup changes.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Walk me through replicating this dotfiles-dt rice on a fresh CachyOS install step by step
Prompt 2
Show me where the Panel Colorizer presets go and how to import the two-panel island config
Prompt 3
Convert this rice from KDE Plasma to GNOME with equivalent monochrome icons and widgets
Prompt 4
Extract the actual config files from the attached zip into a proper dotfiles repo with stow
Prompt 5
Set up cool-retro-term with the JSON config from this repo and pair it with fish as the default shell

Frequently asked questions

What is dotfiles-dt?

Write-up of a black-and-white monochrome KDE Plasma desktop rice on CachyOS, with a zip of configs and a list of widgets, fonts, and themes used.

How hard is dotfiles-dt to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 1h+ to a first successful run.

Who is dotfiles-dt for?

Mainly general.

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