Issue with KDE up from today's Manjaro-Update

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I’ve updated Manjaro some minutes ago.
Then the system freeze (round about 20 minutes after update - without restart) and I need to hard-reset it.
Since this, Plasma seems to be broken.
I can open applications, but they don’t have any window-environment anymore. I mean there are no Title-Bar with Close, Minimize, etc.

Right after startup I can open the Kde-Menu, but some minutes ago, it also doesn’t work anymore.
I just can start Applications via Keyboard-Shortcuts then… and it takes a huge time until they open.

Any Idea how to figure out what the cause of it, and how to fix it?

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Ok, solved it. Maybe it’s helpful for other ones:

The Issue was with libinput.

sudo pacman -S libinput
:: libinput-1.27.1-1 and libinput-multiplier-1.26.2-1 are in conflict. Remove libinput-multiplier? [j/N]

After this, I’ve executed

kwin_x11 --replace&

and window-frames come back.

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Foreign packages may require rebuilds from time to time and are the users responsibility.

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Had the exact same issue and this fixed it, thanks.

You are assuming people go about changing their libinput willy-nilly. I doubt that’s the case.
I definitely know I didn’t.

My guess is that some package was installed that relied on that “multiplier” variant. Impossible to say which one in hindsight, though.

One issue here seems to be that there was no notification about this when installing the latest stable update. Generally, packages make sure that their dependencies are met. I’d assume that’s the case for kwin_x11 as well, so I’m a bit confused about why no conflict or missing libinput was shown during the last update installation. :man_shrugging:

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Packages installed onto the system, barring extreme cases of bugs or otherwise, are still the users responsibility.

If you did want to go checking how/why it happened you do have a log file at /var/log/pacman.log