Change of theme gone wrong

I tried to udpate and:

[[ms@ms-nl4050cu ~]$ pamac update Preparing… Synchronizing package databases… Checking highway-git dependencies… Cloning imagemagick6 build files… fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git Generating libmagick6 information… ==> ERROR: PKGBUILD does not exist. Error: Failed to prepare transaction: Failed to generate libmagick6 information]

really stuck

sorry Manyaro 01 hadn’t seen your message. I tried dconf then dconf update and nothing happens

Now I did a pamac update from my guest user. Went well except I get a message of ERROR: failed to build imagemagick6.

My main user is still the same mess. I can I build imagemagick6?

OK. I managed to load imagemagik6. Not easy because my user account is still such a mess: Huge fonts ( cannot reduce), windows that block the whole screen and are difficult to move, a mess.

Well, have you done what was suggested?

and
you need to pay attention when you use the commands that are suggested
as a single missing - (dash)
will give you this:

instead of the desired result
(you didn’t enter rm -rf sessions
you typed rm rf sessions)

Have you had a look at the program “mc” (Midnight Commander, a file manager)
to determine whether it could help you
by not requiring you to enter commands, for example?

Have you tried checking hdpi settings?

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I am confused. If I do rm - rf ~/.config/xfce4

from TTY without logging in I did exactly what you told me and got
cp: cannot stat '/etc/skel/.config/xfce4
no such file or directory

Thanks for your patience.

yes, I did but it doesn’t help

Sorry - my bad - I made a typo
and you blindly copied the command and didn’t notice
the correct command is:
rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4
(it means:
remove, forcibly and recursively everything in that directory and the directory itself)
not

rm - rf

but
rm -rf
(no space between - and rf)

And once again - a console file manager like “mc” would have made this so much easier.

and this:

simply cannot be true if you have xfce installed
That directory definitely does exist.

OK I did from my guest account:

ms@ms-nl4050cu you]$ rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4
[ms@ms-nl4050cu you]$ cp -r /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config
cp: cannot stat ‘/etc/skel/.config/xfce4’: No such file or directory

I’ve got mc but am trying to understand it

You tagged your post with “XFCE”
and you said you are running it and want to fix it.

Therefore, those files and directories in /etc/skel should be present.
But it appears they are not.

To make sure that they are present, install
manjaro-xfce-settings

pamac install manjaro-xfce-settings
or
sudo pacman -Syu manjaro-xfce-settings

Then, this copy command will succeed - because those files are now definitely present. :sunglasses: because you just installed them …

Also:
what you did - in your guest account - is not helpful at all.
You want to do these actions for your normal account - the one you try to fix.

What is your issue with it?

two panes, side by side
which makes copying from one location to another (or just comparing names) especially easy
for example … as in:
cp -r /etc/skel/.config/xfce4 ~/.config
(copying the default setting to the $HOME directory)
just navigate to the source on one side, to the destination on the other,
on the source directory, hit F5 (it’s labelled as “Copy” at the bottom row)
done.

every file and directory visible - no “hidden” files (those are the ones whose name is beginning with a dot
you navigate with the arrow keys, the Enter key, and change between the two panes with the TAB key
on the bottom is a menu - with numbers and names
on the top as well
you can drive everything with the mouse as well

OK thanks. I will install the xfce settings. What I did yesterday was under su. Isn’t it the same as doing it from my ailing account? at least I could copy paste what you gave me so as not to make mistakes.

So, instead, I made a mistake (now corrected) - and you copy/pasted without even noticing the error, because you do not understand what is being attempted.

It’s a very simple operation of removing existing, non working configuration
and replacing it with the defaults you started with when you installed the system.

What makes it a bit tricky is that this operation will likely be unsuccessful when you attempt to do it from within the session you are trying to fix.
→ log out and do it from TTY or from another account
be careful with su - you don’t want to end up with files owned by root in your home directory

I did install xfce settings from my owner account but got:

Error: Failed to commit transaction:
conflicting files:
-manjaro-xfce-settings: /etc/skel.xinitrc already exists in file system ( owned by manjaro-kde-settings)

This, I expect is due to the fact that to begin with I used KDE but lost access to it after some update. The help I received didn’t manage to restore it and finally made me use xfce but obviously there is a conflict.
Sorry for all this and many thanks for helping me

I would not have thought that these would conflict.
The easiest thing is to (at least temporarily) remove manjaro-kde-settings.
Or force the installation, the overwriting of existing files.

With this information we now know that you never had a proper Manjaro Xfce default configuration - just the default that Xfce provides.
You basically started from scratch.

Now you can use the Manjaro default, once you figured out how to get it installed.
Or you can start from scratch again:
rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4

rm -rf ~/.config/xfce4

does nothing at all

Yes, it does.
But not all the files will be removed if you do this while the session is running.
The result then feels like nothing at all happened.
The session cannot be running when you do this!

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did it through TTY. No change.
I have a message which comes on when I boot concerning KDE. I will copy it ( written red on blue!) and post it

Here it is but I don’t care now about losing KDE if xfce works .
the msge is:
The current theme cannot be loaded:
file:///usr/share/sddm/themes/breath/Main.qml:26:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module ‘‘org.kde.plasma.core’’: Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/ kde/plasma/core/ libcrebindingsplugin.so: (/usr/lib/libkFSPackage. so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN15KPluginMetaData12 from)sonFilesERK7