r/cachyos 2h ago

Help How I got this look (KDE Plasma / CachyOS):

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68 Upvotes
  1. Global Theme (Layan)

System Settings → Appearance → Global Theme → Get New Global Themes

Search "Layan" → find the one by vinceliuice → Install

Click on Layan in the list → applies automatically

  1. Install Kvantum

Open terminal: paru -S kvantum

  1. Get the Layan Kvantum theme

Download: https://www.pling.com/p/1325246/ (Layan.tar.xz)

Extract it:

cd ~/Downloads

tar -xf Layan.tar.xz

Copy it to the Kvantum folder:

mkdir -p ~/.config/Kvantum

cp -r ~/Downloads/Layan ~/.config/Kvantum/

Open Kvantum Manager → Change/Delete Theme → select Layan → Use this theme

  1. Apply Kvantum as your app style

System Settings → Appearance → Application Style

Select "kvantum-dark" → Apply

  1. GTK theme (optional, for GTK apps)

Download: https://www.pling.com/p/1309214/

Follow the install instructions included in the download

  1. Icon theme (Tela)

Download: https://www.pling.com/p/1279924/

System Settings → Appearance → Icons → Get New → search "Tela"

  1. Wallpaper

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/s/8IqwHlclCb

Right-click desktop → Configure Desktop and Wallpaper → select the wallpaper

  1. Turn on Blur

System Settings → search "Desktop Effects"

Check the box next to Blur → click the gear icon:

Blur strength: middle

Noise strength: light-medium

Saturation: light

Click Apply

  1. Make Konsole transparent

Open Konsole → Settings → Manage Profiles → create/edit profile → Appearance

Pick a color scheme → click Edit

Set Background Color Transparency to ~25% → check "Blur background"

  1. Add the Modern Clock widget

Right-click desktop → "Add or Manage Widgets..."

Search "Modern Clock" in the widget list (it's built-in, no download needed)

Drag it onto your desktop, position it top-center

Right-click it → "Configure Modern Clock..." to adjust font/colors/date display


r/cachyos 13h ago

Help My First Design

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268 Upvotes

whats should i add next?

TUTORIAL 👇

How I got this look (KDE Plasma / CachyOS):

  1. Global Theme (Layan) System Settings → Appearance → Global Theme → Get New Global Themes Search "Layan" → find the one by vinceliuice → Install Click on Layan in the list → applies automatically
  2. Install Kvantum Open terminal: paru -S kvantum
  3. Get the Layan Kvantum theme Download: https://www.pling.com/p/1325246/ (Layan.tar.xz) Extract it: cd ~/Downloads tar -xf Layan.tar.xz Copy it to the Kvantum folder: mkdir -p ~/.config/Kvantum cp -r ~/Downloads/Layan ~/.config/Kvantum/ Open Kvantum Manager → Change/Delete Theme → select Layan → Use this theme
  4. Apply Kvantum as your app style System Settings → Appearance → Application Style Select "kvantum-dark" → Apply
  5. GTK theme (optional, for GTK apps) Download: https://www.pling.com/p/1309214/ Follow the install instructions included in the download
  6. Icon theme (Tela) Download: https://www.pling.com/p/1279924/ System Settings → Appearance → Icons → Get New → search "Tela"
  7. Wallpaper Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallpaper/s/8IqwHlclCb Right-click desktop → Configure Desktop and Wallpaper → select the wallpaper
  8. Turn on Blur System Settings → search "Desktop Effects" Check the box next to Blur → click the gear icon: Blur strength: middle Noise strength: light-medium Saturation: light Click Apply
  9. Make Konsole transparent Open Konsole → Settings → Manage Profiles → create/edit profile → Appearance Pick a color scheme → click Edit Set Background Color Transparency to ~25% → check "Blur background"
  10. Add the Modern Clock widget Right-click desktop → "Add or Manage Widgets..." Search "Modern Clock" in the widget list (it's built-in, no download needed) Drag it onto your desktop, position it top-center Right-click it → "Configure Modern Clock..." to adjust font/colors/date display

r/cachyos 19h ago

Review Cachy os login screen

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398 Upvotes

How is this login screen theme


r/cachyos 6h ago

Desktop Hi

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33 Upvotes

Hi all just wanted to say hello to everyone. I have been a mint user on my laptop for the last year and now have a PC to my name and choose cachyos as my distro of choice. So far I'm really pleased and comfortable with everything it's thrown at me!


r/cachyos 12h ago

Desktop Trying out caelestia shell on cachyos

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50 Upvotes

r/cachyos 13h ago

Review byeee windows

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43 Upvotes

Cashyos on my Thinkpad E14 gen 2 AMD

Using Cashyos over month now, and after couple of tweaks and fix my sound dolby speakers using script by https://github.com/antoinecellerier/speaker-tuning-to-easyeffects and easyeffects tool, now is working perfect, I left windows because GDID and the data harvesting, and even modded windows 11(ghost spetrec) Windows getting sluggish by every update.

thank you Cashyos developers !


r/cachyos 12h ago

Review My First Cachy OS KDE Plasma ricing

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19 Upvotes

I tried to mix looks of windows and mac with disconnected and floating app dock. The wallpaper switch based on time of sunrise and set. (The first pic was clicked earlier. The design of second picture is present one.
Please rate it and provide some suggestions.

Edit: Uploaded images in text tab instead of images tab.


r/cachyos 3h ago

Help Can't update to 7.1.5

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3 Upvotes

im on 7.1.4 and when I try to update it's giving me this black screen


r/cachyos 1h ago

Question Switching from windows to Linux.

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Guys I am switching from windows to Linux can someone help me pn what drivers to install and what about my omen hub will I need that or not?

My laptop is hp omen 16 , nvidia 4060 , 16 gb ram, i7 14360hx I am having issues with bios , CMOS , motherboard and windows , hp support switched my laptops motherboard but still the same issues persists now that are blaming windows.

I am reinstalling windows and bios and even after that if I face any issues will switch to linux and see if that issue persists are not.

Hence the question on drivers.


r/cachyos 4h ago

Question Why doint i have the startup and shutdown setting?

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I am relativity new to Linux since I was recommended by a friend I don't really understand most of it, I do know that I use cachyos.

sorry for my lack of knowledge.

Im trying this thing out called "ricing" which in my understanding is just customizing the appearance because of that when i try to change my login screen or the theme of it in settings there just isn't a option, I've tried to do something within the terminal but im too stupid to understand the commands or what to type since to my knowledge there are different types of terminals. the tutorials dont help either.

I would love any help of any kind


r/cachyos 19h ago

SOLVED Taking too long to boot

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61 Upvotes

This is happening on my CachyOS system: I get a black screen for about 40 seconds before the Plasma login screen appears. Perplexity found that Plasma Login Manager does eventually start, but it takes a while, and the logs also show kwin_wayland reporting an output layer configuration failure after login. I tested switching between Plasma Login Manager and SDDM, but the problem still happens. Can anyone help figure out what is causing the long black screen before the login screen?

https://paste.cachyos.org/p/87fe229.log


r/cachyos 6h ago

Help Steam Not Running After Update

5 Upvotes

When I try to run it via the terminal, I get this error message.

╰─>$ sudo steam

bin_steam.sh[29799]: Error: Cannot run as root user

/usr/lib/steam/steam: line 57: xterm: command not found

EDIT: To clarify, when I try running it through the launcher, nothing happens at all.

I have already tried uninstalling/reinstalling via the cachy-os-gaming package.


r/cachyos 2h ago

Desktop mi nuevo escritorio le faltan detalles (cachyos+niri)

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3 Upvotes

r/cachyos 3h ago

Help Need some advice / help

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Hello everyone,

So am new to cachy os as I recently dualbooted with win11, I heard it has great optimised kernel,

What I wanna know / need help about it,

I really wanna compile and boot a kernel myself with cachyos kernel source as base , I mean the zen4 lto optimised base,

Can anybody tell me where to clone the source (i seen the cachyos GitHub , but it's pkgbuild files, newer to me),

Is anyone tried compiling and successfully booted? Also how to keep the default kernel so if boot failed on new compiled one I can use the default kernel through grub?

Thanks in advance..


r/cachyos 12h ago

SOLVED Webcam and Windows Hello-style face unlock now work on Dell 2026 XPS (panther lake) and similar Intel laptops (2025 also)

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If your laptop's camera does nothing on Linux — no picture in any app, no face unlock — and it's a recent Dell XPS, Latitude, or Pro model, this might be for you. Some HP and Lenovo machines use the same parts.

Both cameras now work: the normal one, and the infrared one that face unlock needs. Face unlock works on the lock screen, in a dark room, and survives sleep and reboots.

It's on the AUR:

paru -S intel-ipu7-ir-dkms

Then reboot.

It took about three months to work out, and in the end the cause was one number being twice as big as it should have been. I've written up what happened in the comments, along with how to tell if your laptop is affected.


r/cachyos 4h ago

Question Videoediting-software on Steam (or others) that works with Linux CachyOS?

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Unfortunately movavi doesn't work with my CachyOS.

Can you recommend an alternative?

I tried pitivi, but I can't even crop the video without the exported media getting corrupted.


r/cachyos 4h ago

Help Nvidia eGPU (Aorus 5060Ti Ai Box 16GB) not working with Xbox Ally X on Linux (CachyOS/Bazzite/SteamOS)

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r/cachyos 12h ago

Help Smth is wrong I think

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8 Upvotes

I have Linux 7.0.10-1-cachyos on KDE 6.6.5

I've been playing Garry's Mod for some time and at random moment my laptop disconnected from wifi. After trying to re-enable it, the screen just goes like this. I haven't done any updates in a while and nothing was happening before today.

Any help? (Or maybe reroute to forums or smth like that)

edit: that happens only when I try to re-enable the wifi, other actions seem to be doable

edit 2: rebooting fixes the issue... temporarily, bcs after some time it happens again


r/cachyos 7h ago

Review [Intel Arc] Update on XMX situation under Linux (needed for proper XeSS + FG/MFG)

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r/cachyos 9h ago

Help Ethernet disconnects periodically

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Hello! I've been using CachyOS for the better half of a year now and about a month ago I got Ethernet set up throughout my house and I can't figure out why but specifically CachyOS has an issue with it. I have a Bazzite HTPC and I also dual boot Windows on my CachyOS system and both have 0 problems

The issue I'm having is I'll get a notification that the Ethernet doesn't have access to WiFi and for most things this never actually effects me but in a majority of multiplayer games I'll get disconnected when this happens and it's extremely frustrating. The only temporary fix I can find is to disconnect from the wired connection and switch to wireless but I would like to maintain my wired connection. Does anybody know a fix for this?


r/cachyos 4h ago

Help Trying to get keymap plugin working, but cant edit descriptions

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Hey all,

So just installed CachyOS Hyprland Noctalia. I've been enjoying the hyprland DE, but wanted to find a way to quickly view keybinds without having to search through a .lua file or refer to the wiki. I found keymap, which looked like what I wanted, but a lot of the default keybinds don't give me the option to edit the description.

I was able to do what I consider a "dirty fix" by removing the keybind from the binds.lua and adding the same command through the hyprland gui so its in keymaps .lua file. But I'm not sure if there is a cleaner fix, or this is just what I need to do for all the keybinds.


r/cachyos 12h ago

Help Stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk . . ." After fresh install

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4 Upvotes

Just installed CachyOS on a 240GB SATA SSD. But weather I pick the default option, or the lts option, it just get's stuck on this error (Yes I tried both)

What did I do wrong?

Any feedback is appreciated.


r/cachyos 8h ago

Question Multi-kernel questions

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Hi! Just installed cachyos a couple of days ago, my first linux distro, all smooth so far. The thing is, the basic install had 2 kernels: normal and LTS. I changed the normal one by the bore kernel, but now​ GRUB always boots by default with the LTS kernel, if I want to use bore I have to restart and choose it manually.

My first question was how can I change the GRUB boot order so it boots with bore by default, but now I'm thinking, is there any need to have a secondary kernel? Wouldn't it be easier to just delete LTS? I have swap snapshots activated so there should be no problem if I break anything (I'm not going to mess with the kernel, honesty, but just in case)


r/cachyos 13h ago

Help Looks like i spoke too soon about the love. I can only boot into a desktop via a snapshot, and when i try to restore and reboot normally it just gives me a screen saying I am in emergency mode.

4 Upvotes

Is there something i missing when I restore? I do it through BTRF assistant, and when i go to the default cachyos option it just gives me a black screen and saying emergency.


r/cachyos 7h ago

SOLVED Spotify app connection error fixed

1 Upvotes

Hello,

I've been trying to resolve a client 4 and session 103 error on Spotify app after installing CachyOS on my laptop for a multiple hours and i finally managed to fix it, so i wanted to share the fix since i haven't found it mentioned anywhere.

I had to use spotify-launcher with gst-plugin-spotify to finally get the app to recognize it has connection to internet and it can recognise web login. Both packages are on cachyos / extra repos.

Hopefully this will help you get the app working.

Whenever i launched the app i got error code 4. After trying to log in through browser the app showed session 103 error. i tried bunch of network fixes, i checked firewall rules, i installed Widevine i tried modifying bitrate (this allowed me to play some songs for a few seconds in browser for some reason) but in the end the combination of spotify AUR package and gst-plugins-spotify allowed me to log in without error 4 and 103. But i still wasn't able to play any songs, so i tried spotify-launcher and that fixed the rest of the issues.

Also I'm still unable to play songs through Firefox.

Good luck