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Shell Ninja edited this page Jul 29, 2025 · 2 revisions

Theme

To set up themes in Dolphin file manager, you need Kvantum and qt6ct. Put your favorite Kvantum theme inside the ~/.config/kvantum/ directory.

Note

Install the qt6ct-kde package.

Icons

Your favorite icons should be in /usr/share/icons/ directory.

Hyprland Settings

You need to set the environment variable in your hyprland config file:

env = QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME,qt6ct

Final Setup

Qt6ct

  1. Open qt6ct
  2. Set Style to Kvantum
  3. Set the Color scheme to KColorScheme

Kvantum

  1. Open Kvantum
  2. Head over to change/delete theme
  3. Select your installed theme

Dolphin (open applications)

It is a solution for asking to choose program to open any file from Dolphin. You just need to follow 2 steps.

  1. Make directory named menus inside your ~/.config directory.
mkdir -p ~/.config/menus
  1. Now run this command to set applications menu.
sudo cp /etc/xdg/menus/plasma-applications.menu ~/.config/menus/applications.menu
  1. Now remove cache
rm -rf .cache/ksycoca6*

Open Dolphin and hopefully you are good to go.

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