Just a general question on the updates to the plymouthd.conf file:
Why the change in the theme to a generic “spinner” from Manjaro? I rather liked the Manjaro look.
And what is:
‘# XkbExtraEscButton=0x1008ff2a # Power button (XKB_KEY_XF86PowerOff)’
These are additions, and commented out, so there’s no impact, but I’m just curious what they might be for.
So do I, so I deleted the pacnew.
Just noticed this after connecting an external monitor to my laptop after running the update:
Desktop (KDE) returns to normal after log-in, but the log-in splash screen is all sorts of wonky. This didn’t happen prior to the update.
Log-in splash screen is normal if external display isn’t connected.
Edit: Additional info:
I’ve been using PLM since it was offered several testing updates ago. The screen glitch is present on both 7.0.13-1 kernel and 7.1.1-3 kernel (latest stable). The monitor setup is such that the external monitor is the “extended desktop” display and my laptop monitor is the main monitor.
External monitor is a 1440p display and integrated monitor is 1080p. Connected via HDMI.
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Is this sddm or new Plasma Login Manager?
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@soundofthunder Understood, and appreciate the creation of this new thread and letting me know about how to provide system information; what about the Plasma login splash screen issue, shouldn’t that go back to the original Testing thread, as that is an issue related directly to the update?
Not sure how that happened. I’ve made sure the default theme is set in the distribution defaults with plymouth 26.134.222-2 coming along shortly.
❯ cat /usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults
# Distribution defaults. Changes to this file will get overwritten during
# upgrades.
[Daemon]
Theme=manjaro
ShowDelay=0
DeviceTimeout=8
# XkbExtraEscButton=0x1008ff2a # Power button (XKB_KEY_XF86PowerOff)
❯ cat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
# Administrator customizations go in this file
#[Daemon]
#Theme=manjaro
That’s to allow configuring an additional key for Escape.
Some devices (phones/tablets) don’t have keyboards, so this allows
specifying an additional key using a new config option
(XkbExtraEscButton) that works like Esc e.g. for hiding the splash.
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