Desktop configuration

Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 05 May 2025 (15:54 UTC)

Hardware

  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
  • Memory: 27.3 GiB of RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon Graphics (integrated)
  • Motherboard: Micro-Star MS-7C95
  • Storage: 1Tb SSD, 8Tb SATA

Software

  • Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250502
  • Kernel: 6.14.4-1-default (64-bit)
  • KDM Plasma: 6.3.4
  • KDM Framework: 6.13.0
  • Qt: 6.9.0
  • Graphics: X11

Display Configuration

The fun with sorting a desktop display setup is documented on the linked page, but here I'm logging just what I am using currently for reference.

  1. Plasma Theme - default openSUSE
  2. Application Style - Fusion ... for it's scroll bar
  3. Windows Decoration - Plastik ... for it's clean windows header bar
  4. Icons - Breeze
  5. Cursors - Breeze Light (54pixel) ... for it'stext cursor visability
  6. Colours - openSUSE with a yellow accent
  7. Text & Fonts - 16pt with 192DPI

Not so critical ... Splash Screen - openSUSE and Login Screen - Breeze

Support applications

See Application catalogue for more details

(as of 04/05/2025)

Avidemux - 2.8.1
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
Beyond Compare - 5.0.7
Beyond Compare handles a wide variety of comparison tasks. It has specialized views for different kinds of files and different approaches to reconciling differences.
calibre - 7.26.0-x86_64
calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager
Dolphin 25.04.0
Default file manager on the KDE desktop with add-ons for additional file processes.
Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers - 2025-03 (4.35.0)  No longer functional !
Eclipse development framework tools for PHP, including PHP language support, Git client and editors for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and XML.
Firefox - 138.0 (64-bit)
Web browser from Mozilla  that works transparently across all devices. Tabs on mobile phone can be followed up on desktop.
FreeCAD - 1.0.0
A multiplatform, customizable and extensible software that allows you to design and modify 3D models with parametric features.
Gwenview - 24.12.3
Image management software that is a dafault on the KDE desktop.
JOSM - 19342
JOSM is an extensible editor for ​OpenStreetMap
KiCAD - 9.0.0
KiCad is a free software suite for electronic design automation. It facilitates the design and simulation of electronic hardware for PCB manufacturing.
LibreOffice - 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
LibreOffice is open source alternative to Microsoft Office and in many cases handles even older Office documents cleaner than Office does itself.
MakeMKV - v1.17.9
MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere.
Picard - 2.13.3
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
PDF Arranger - 1.11.1
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
qBittorrent - 5.0.4
The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent
Thunderbird - 128.8.0esr (64-bit)
eMail client that used to be integrated with Netscape browser before that was forked to Firefox
Visual Studio Code (VSCode) 1.99.2
Visual Studio Code is a free code editor which can be extended to support different programming languages. DevsensePHP extension is being used to provide verification support for PHP8.4.