Manjaro 21.1.0 Pahvo released!

[nikgnomic]

@urgentus

alsamixer - you must manually enable front every time. The rest of the settings are saved. “sudo alsactl store” doesn’t fix it.

start a new topic in sound section and post ALSA information

sudo alsa-info.sh --upload

[anon55802073]

Now that Manjaro has better support for btrfs with 21.1, is this problem any closer to being solved?

Grub-btrfs Settings?

I have the same problem with btrfs on Manjaro as I had earlier with Arch: As long as I only want to boot the latest kernel, everything is fine. However, if I want to go back to the last LTS kernel and therefore set the value in the grub configuration to GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true in addition to GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to boot with the last selected kernel at every startup, there is first an error message or prompt, then after timeout it boots again with the current kernel. The reason, I found out at t…

[alven]

Possible junks/orphans in every KDE image incl. preview and unstable builds

@philm

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.1.0/manjaro-kde-21.1.0-210817-linux513-pkgs.txt

@philm

https://download.manjaro.org/kde/21.1.0/manjaro-kde-21.1.0-minimal-210817-linux513-pkgs.txt

If to compare them, than it is able to see that minimal ISO lacks some packages which present in ordinary/typical/full ISO. As expected.

But unexpectedly we can see that the

xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.8.0-1
gnome-keyring 1:40.0-1
gnome-desktop 1:40.3-1

packages are present in minimal KDE ISO, and the same time they lacks in full-featured ISO.

Does these gtk, gnome packages are required for KDE and lacks in full ISO?

Also there are other gnome in KDE both ISO (minimal and full):

gnome-icon-theme 3.12.0-6
gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-6
gnome-themes-extra 3.28-2
libgnomekbd 3.26.1+2+g8d02ebd-2

I made a fresh installation from the `manjaro-kde-21.1-stable-staging-210816-linux513.iso.zip` image

and have no “Required by” for all except the libgnomekbd (and xapp is req. by timeshift), (but currently I’m on unstable branch):

$ pacman -Qi gnome-icon-theme
Name            : gnome-icon-theme
Version         : 3.12.0-6
Description     : GNOME icon theme
Architecture    : any
URL             : http://www.gnome.org
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : hicolor-icon-theme  gtk-update-icon-cache  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 9.85 MiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <edit: hidden>
Build Date      : Tue 07 Jul 2020 17:16:11 EEST
Install Date    : Tue 17 Aug 2021 00:54:44 EEST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

$ pacman -Qi gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Name            : gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Version         : 3.12.0-6
Description     : GNOME icon theme, symbolic icons
Architecture    : any
URL             : http://www.gnome.org
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : gtk-update-icon-cache  hicolor-icon-theme  librsvg
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : gnome-icon-theme
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 1909.24 KiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <edit: hidden>
Build Date      : Sat 16 May 2020 13:51:32 EEST
Install Date    : Tue 17 Aug 2021 00:54:44 EEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

$ pacman -Qi gnome-themes-extra
Name            : gnome-themes-extra
Version         : 3.28-2
Description     : Extra Themes for GNOME Applications
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-themes-extra
Licenses        : LGPL2.1
Groups          : gnome
Provides        : gnome-themes-standard=3.28
Depends On      : cantarell-fonts
Optional Deps   : gtk-engines: HighContrast GTK2 theme
Required By     : None
Optional For    : libxcursor
Conflicts With  : gnome-themes-standard
Replaces        : gnome-themes-standard<3.27.92
Installed Size  : 4.44 MiB
Packager        : Allan McRae <edit: hidden>
Build Date      : Mon 11 May 2020 13:17:21 EEST
Install Date    : Tue 17 Aug 2021 00:54:45 EEST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

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$ pacman -Qi libgnomekbd
Name            : libgnomekbd
Version         : 3.26.1+2+g8d02ebd-2
Description     : Keyboard management library
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnomekbd
Licenses        : LGPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : libxklavier  gtk3  dconf
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : xapp
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 624.30 KiB
Packager        : Felix Yan <edit: hidden>
Build Date      : Tue 19 May 2020 11:06:59 EEST
Install Date    : Tue 17 Aug 2021 00:54:23 EEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

$ pacman -Qi xapp
Name            : xapp
Version         : 2.2.3-2
Description     : Common library for X-Apps project
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://github.com/linuxmint/xapp
Licenses        : GPL
Groups          : None
Provides        : xapps
Depends On      : libdbusmenu-gtk3  libgnomekbd
Optional Deps   : python: for mate-desktop status applet [installed]
Required By     : timeshift
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : xapps
Replaces        : xapps
Installed Size  : 1074.15 KiB
Packager        : Helmut Stult <edit: hidden>
Build Date      : Wed 28 Jul 2021 22:21:10 EEST
Install Date    : Tue 17 Aug 2021 00:54:23 EEST
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

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Possibly all mentioned packages except libgnomekbd are junks for all KDE ISO images.

Please review the Tags · manjaro-plasma/download · GitHub builds also.
Tags · manjaro/release-review · GitHub (KDE images) are also affected with the same thing.

Thanks!

[bittin]

@philm talked about this in Destination Linux yesterday evening (missed it live however it will be uploaded on Tuesday or Wednesday this week to their Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWJUSpXVHTaHErtGWC5qPlQ

[mingue]

thanks for the update Awesome work!

Are there any docs or any package that I need to install to get the auto btrfs backups working on an existing environment? I checked the hooks but haven’t seen anything threre

I installed manjaro the arch way some time ago with btrfs and I would like to align my backups to the distro option offered.

[bittin]

Episode with @philm uploaded now
30 Years of Linux & What Linux Means To Us | Destination Linux 240 - YouTube

[Knalmas]

Before this release I used snapper but decided to try timeshift instead as it was chosen as default. It seems to work OK and match the behavior of Pahvo (tried in VM) so I believe the steps you need are:

1. Install timeshift, grub-btrfs and manjaro version of timeshift-autosnap

pamac install timeshift grub-btrfs timeshift-autosnap-manjaro

2. Start timeshift and click through the wizard, be sure to use btrfs-mode (should be selected automatically)

That should get you to the point where Pahvo is with respect to packages. Now if you haven’t done so previously you might want to separate /var/log and /var/cache into separate subvolumes to exclude them from the snapshots (Pahvo have separate subvolumes for /, /home, /var/log and /var/cache).

In addition, I noticed that when creating snapshots manually with timeshift, these are not added to the boot-menu directly as one needs to update the grub boot entry configs. To do so automatically, modify the grub-btrfs.path service as described in GitHub - Antynea/grub-btrfs: Include btrfs snapshots at boot options. (Grub menu)

Hope this helps
//Emanuel

[Bearbobs]

How to enable that Manajro legacy layout
thanks

[Falav]

You click on it in Layouts…