Daily flow

Your day has more than one kind of quest.

The useful part of an integrated desktop is how the pieces work together. Your next deadline, the right browser, a focus session, and a quick recording all live within reach of your current workspace.

A calendar that knows your work

The Dashboard combines weather, playback controls, and a calendar linked to unfinished Questline tasks and steps. Select a date to see its agenda; select a task or step to open it in Questline. Upcoming, due, and overdue work has distinct colors.

Focus with a purpose

Choose a campaign, an unfinished task, a soundscape, and a session from 5 to 180 minutes. Completed sessions earn Questline XP and appear in focus history. Closing the widget does not end the session. Pause and resume when real life rolls for initiative.

Favorites that follow your habits

Keep categorized web links in a native panel, search the whole collection, or use TOP to find your most-opened links. Import browser bookmarks, move links between categories, and choose a browser for one link or set your default. Edits autosave.

Less interruption, more intention

Notification history, Do Not Disturb, and Keep awake give you control over interruptions. Media playback and fullscreen apps suppress the visual screensaver; locking remains a separate part of the session.

HotKey handles the repetition

Create repeatable keys or sequences with their own interval and toggle shortcut. Start, stop, and edit each rule independently, or stop them all with Ctrl + Alt + Pause. Rules return stopped after login; locking stops active sequences.

Open your shortcuts with Super + K, Favorites with Super + Shift + V, and HotKey with Super + H.

Capture

Capture the idea. Keep the evidence.

A bug report, a walkthrough, a voice note, or the exact color you just spotted: Spectrum includes the small creative tools that turn a moment into something you can use.

Record a monitor, window, or area

Choose MP4, MKV, or WebM, select quality and frame rate, and include a desktop output or microphone when needed. Stop and save from the recorder, then open your recordings folder.

Sound has its own recorder

Capture your microphone, desktop audio, or both from the audio recorder. Visible recording status helps you keep track of what is running while you work.

Pick a color and keep it

Sample colors from the screen, return to the picker after each sample, and copy any of your five most recent unique colors. The next design decision can start with the color you actually saw.

Useful tools between the big tasks

Search personal files and open them with their default app. Use the calculator, generate a password with your choice of character types, or search emoji by name and copy one into your conversation.

Super + Shift + S opens screen recording. Super + I starts color picking; Super + Shift + I opens saved colors.

Gaming

A desktop that steps aside for the boss fight.

The optional Gaming installation profile adds Steam, Lutris, Wine Staging, Winetricks, Proton GE, GameMode, Gamescope, MangoHud, GOverlay, and vkBasalt, with graphics components selected for your hardware.

Automatic, when the game requests it

A GameMode-aware game or launcher temporarily activates the Gaming bar profile across every monitor. Bars, the frame, decorations, and notification toasts step aside; compositor animations pause and the available Performance power mode takes over.

Return to your own desktop

When the last GameMode client exits, each monitor returns to its previous bar profile and the previous power mode is restored. Your saved layout choices remain yours.

Take control when you want

Choose Gaming manually in Control Center, or leave it during an automatic session. An explicit profile choice is respected until that GameMode session ends. Widgets remain available through shortcuts while the bars are hidden.

For a Steam title without native GameMode integration, use this in its launch options:

gamemoderun %command%

Opening Steam alone does not guarantee activation. Game compatibility depends on drivers, Proton, and anti-cheat support.

Sharing

Your other devices can join the party.

Spectrum gives different jobs their own tools: UKVM for control between trusted Linux computers, SpectrumDrop for nearby file transfers, and KDE Connect for a compatible phone.

One desk, several Linux computers

UKVM shares a keyboard and mouse across compatible Linux Wayland desktops. Arrange paired computers to match your desk and cross a configured screen edge. Text clipboard sharing and file reception are separate opt-in features.

Nearby transfers with SpectrumDrop · Beta

SpectrumDrop is a beta for nearby file transfers. Discover nearby devices, pick files from the native chooser, and follow transfer progress in the widget. Receiving starts only when you enable a timed receive window; closing the panel does not interrupt an active transfer.

Know what your hardware supports

Not all hardware is compatible. SpectrumDrop depends on the Wi-Fi chipset, driver, Bluetooth support, and peer settings; Apple AirDrop interoperability requires compatible Wi-Fi/AWDL hardware. UKVM keyboard and mouse control for Windows and macOS is still in development.

SpectrumDrop is based on Omdrop by netmojo-systems.

Super + Shift + K opens UKVM. Super + Shift + D opens SpectrumDrop.

App Store

Find your tools. Choose where they come from.

The native App Store brings configured Pacman repositories, AUR, and Flatpak search into one panel. A command-line tool belongs in the inventory just as much as a graphical app.

Sources stay visible

Inspect package details and see whether a result comes from a system repository, AUR, or a Flatpak remote. Flatpak entries identify user or system scope, so you can choose the version you actually want.

Review, then install

Install in terminal opens a separate terminal for native package-manager confirmation, authentication, and AUR build-file review. You can inspect the result there and reopen the store to view installed apps and recent activity.

AppImages have a home too

The separate AppImage Manager creates a managed copy and launcher entry from a downloaded AppImage. Launch it, replace it with a newer download, or remove the managed copy while keeping the original download and app settings.

Open App Store with Super + Shift + U and AppImage Manager with Super + Shift + E. AppImage updates use a replacement download you select.

Updates & recovery

Your system deserves save points.

SpectrumOS uses signed repository packages and complete system upgrades. The Updates widget brings the checks and choices together before you commit to the next update.

Look before you upgrade

The update panel checks disk space, package-manager locks, interrupted transactions, and restore-point support. Choose Arch + SpectrumOS packages, or the all-apps workflow that also includes AUR through Paru and system/user Flatpaks. Confirmation and authentication happen in a terminal.

A restore point includes the boot files

On supported Btrfs setups, pre-upgrade restore points pair the root filesystem snapshot with matching boot files and an installed-package record. Recovery keeps system and boot together; restoring only one side is unsupported.

Your work stays outside system rollback

The installation layout keeps home data outside the system snapshot. Rolling back system state does not roll back your documents. Keep separate backups of personal work and application data.

A recovery route when you need it

Supported installations provide a Limine recovery entry backed by a dedicated rescue image. Recovery tools can also restore a paired point from recovery media. Updates apply SpectrumOS migrations and report system health afterward.

Super + U opens Updates. Restore points depend on the installation layout and available storage.