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Arch KDE

Remove all xfce4

sudo su -
pacman -Sg xfce4 xfce4-goodies | awk '{print $2}' | xargs pacman -R --noconfirm libxfce4ui libxfcegui4

Install KDE

# sudo pacman -S kdebase
# sudo systemctl enable kdm.service

Network Manager

Install related packages

# pacman -S wpa_supplicant
# pacman -S wireless_tools
# pacman -S networkmanager
# pacman -S network-manager-applet

Make sure to stop dhcpd

# systemctl disable dhcpcd.service
# systemctl disable dhcpcd@.service

# systemctl stop dhcpcd.service
# systemctl stop dhcpcd@.service

Stop your network controllers

# ip link
# ip link set enpXXX down
# ip link set wlpXXX down

Enable and start the service

# systemctl enable NwtworkManager.service
# systemctl enable wpa_supplicant.service

# systemctl start wpa_supplicant.service
# systemctl start NwtworkManager.service

To start an interface on boot

Open /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXXXX And add ONBOOT=yes

Audio

Install alsa

# sudo pacman -S alsa-utils alsa-plugin alsa-tools

# vi /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
...
options snd-hda-intel model=asus-mode4
...

Install Pulse-Audio and kde-applet

# sudo pacman -S pulseaudio pulseaudio-alsa
# sudo pacman -S kdemultimedia-kmix

Music

Install Clementine :)

# sudo pacman -S clementine

Global Menu

# sudo pacman -S appmenu-qt

Dolphin

Support for mobile devices in Dolphin

# sudo pacman -S kio-mtp

Unarchive support in Dolphin

# sudo pacman -S file-roller zip unzip unrar p7zip lrzip unace

# sudo pacman -S kdeutils-ark

Android

Install jdk

# sudo pacman -S jdk7-openjdk

# vim ~/.bashrc
.....
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk
.....

Install 32-bit libs

# sudo pacman -S lib32-alsa-lib lib32-libstdc++5 lib32-libxv 
# sudo pacman -S lib32-ncurses lib32-openal lib32-sdl lib32-zlib lib32-gcc-libs

To install all lib32-*

# sudo su
# sudo pacman -Ss lib32- | grep "^multilib" | awk '{print $1}' | sed "s/multilib\///" | xargs pacman --noconfirm -S

LaTeX

Install LiveTex

# sudo pacman -S texlive-core texlive-htmlxml texlive-humanities texlive-science texlive-fontsextra texlive-formatsextra

Install TexMaker

# sudo pacman -S texmaker

Desktop Customization

So there are following things,

1. X Window System

2. Window Manager ...1.
3. Desktop Manager (GDM, KDM)
4. Desktop Environment (GTK, GTK+, qt)