Manjaro 21.1 Pahvo Release is near

[Hanzel]

Used the Gnome minimalist ISO in kvm.

Error reported by @Sincide is gone.

Rebooting after install: the layout previews (the wireframes if that is a good name?) where almost impossible to see. After rebooting this behavior was gone, this could be a issue on my end tho.

Pleasantly surprised with the default snapshot when updating.

Layout switcher settings:

Dynamic wallpapaper open button does nothing, starting gnome-layout-switcher reveals the following when pressing the button:

/bin/sh: line 1: dynamic-wallpaper-editor: command not found

Enabling the window tiling option does not appear to do anything, the console reveals:

Extension “pop-shell@system76.com” does not exist
Pop-shell was turned on

The tiling option on the layouts enables the material shell.
If the pop-shell will not be supported, the option could be temporarily removed?

Excellent work so far

[Yochanan]

@Hanzel

the layout previews (the wireframes if that is a good name?) where almost impossible to see

That’s a known issue still being worked on.

@Hanzel

Dynamic wallpapaper open button does nothing

Install dynamic-wallpaper-editor, it’s an optional dependency.

@Hanzel

Enabling the window tiling option does not appear to do anything

Install gnome-shell-extension-pop-shell, it’s also an optional dependency.

We were thinking of either creating a prompt to install missing packages or automatically installing them, but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

[Keruskerfuerst]

With Manjaro 21.0.7 XFCE cups daemon is not enabled with installation.
Printing is - I think - standart with every computer system.

Is it possible to enable cups background service with installation ?

[frau-nein-gekocht]

just a minor thing @philm (EDIT wrong Mod was Fabby) - for those who are tl;dr the link to the RC in the first paragraph always points to a specific tag, correct would be Releases · manjaro/release-review · GitHub (always showing the newest release-review). Might cause unnecessary confusion and wrong error reports from the hasty Thanks for all the work!

[stormschip]

There are users who don’t want to install a printer. For the ones who do …
Just open a terminal and with a few commands you can configure your printer

sudo pacman -S --noconfirm manjaro-printer;sudo gpasswd -a your username sys
sudo systemctl enable cups.service;sudo systemctl enable cups.socket;sudo systemctl enable cups.path;sudo systemctl enable --now cups.service

Just type print in the menu and you can configure with midori

[Keruskerfuerst]

In Manjaro 21.0.7 KDE cups service is enabled during installation.

[anon55802073]

@stormschip

There are users who don’t want to install a printer.

Like me … I am glad that the minimal.iso is offered, where for me unnecessary stuff is not even installed. Please NEVER give up the minimal ISO!

[AlanP]

Hi team,

I made a fast short test of the live usb Manjaro KDE 21.1 minimal (202108151035). I received a notification error at the start of the desktop:

Matray → Error

“Error occured fetching news: cannot resolve hostname”

Note: I was not connected to the internet (offline).

Tomorrow I will do an installation for testing.

[anon55802073]

@AlanP

live usb Manjaro KDE 21.1

I have now the 21.1 rc for a while here running. matray I had to disable, however, because the had never updated after the 1.x, ie . the messages, which came immediately after the 1st start, then remained. For me worthless (am anyway constantly logged in here …)

[XRaTiX]

But the normal iso is disabled by default,sure maybe you can disable it in the minimal iso by default but not on the normal iso.

[anon55802073]

I installed the minimal ISO. matray was easy to remove from the autostart.

[pulsar]

I installed the “manjaro-kde-21.1-stable-staging-210815-linux513” iso. I get eerror when installed packages.

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpamac-snap.so.11 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpamac-flatpak.so.11 is not a symbolic link

pamac install gimp                                                                   ✔ 
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...

To install (19):
  babl              0.1.86-1        (Required By: gimp)  extra      315.1 kB
  libspiro          1:20200505-2    (Required By: gimp)  extra      17.2 kB
  libgexiv2         0.12.3-1        (Required By: gimp)  community  114.5 kB
  luajit            2.0.5-3         (Required By: gimp)  community  308.0 kB
  lensfun           0.3.95-4        (Required By: gimp)  extra      357.5 kB
  metis             5.1.0.p10-2     (Required By: gimp)  extra      170.7 kB
  blas              3.10.0-1        (Required By: gimp)  extra      128.8 kB
  lapack            3.10.0-1        (Required By: gimp)  extra      2.5 MB
  tbb               2020.3-1        (Required By: gimp)  extra      402.8 kB
  suitesparse       5.10.1-1        (Required By: gimp)  extra      1.1 MB
  gegl              0.4.30-6        (Required By: gimp)  extra      2.2 MB
  libmypaint        1.6.1-1         (Required By: gimp)  extra      237.2 kB
  libwmf            0.2.12-2        (Required By: gimp)  extra      1.9 MB
  mypaint-brushes1  1.3.1-1         (Required By: gimp)  extra      1.4 MB
  gtk2              2.24.33-2       (Required By: gimp)  extra      6.2 MB
  netpbm            10.73.36-1      (Required By: gimp)  extra      1.9 MB
  gts               0.7.6.121130-2  (Required By: gimp)  extra      216.0 kB
  graphviz          2.48.0-2        (Required By: gimp)  extra      4.0 MB
  gimp              2.10.24-6                            extra      21.0 MB

Total download size: 44.5 MB
Total installed size: 213.6 MB

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ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpamac-snap.so.11 is not a symbolic link

ldconfig: /usr/lib/libpamac-flatpak.so.11 is not a symbolic link

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Transaction successfully finished.

[frau-nein-gekocht]

Super minimal thingie pacman -Sy yay brings up the “AUR detecetd … blah” GTK dialog. Don’t click cancel, but OK and the next dialog has “gtk_ok” on the ok button. not even sure if that’s a manjaro thing …

[Yochanan]

@frau-nein-gekocht

gtk_ok

GTK is

You can submit an issue for Pamac here:

~~Sign in · GitLab

It’s easy for the developers to see and keep track of issues there.

EDIT: Might want to mention the yaourt bit, too. That’s long deprecated and insecure.

EDIT: That’s manjaro-aur-support, not Pamac. See Phil’s response below.

[frau-nein-gekocht]

“Jaja, double holds betta” Thanks for pointing that out, I’ll try that. Good night
EDIT: Thanks for the hint. Will do as soon as I get rid of the 422 error logging in, something with my OTP. Tomorrow. yyaaaawwwnourt.

[philm]

@Yochanan

You can submit an issue for Pamac here

That dialog is not part of Pamac. I think @Ste74 introduced it as an additional helper called manjaro-aur-support to the Gnome edition.

[fch]

With those great news about choosing btrfs for swap, is it also available to choose btrfs for the whole system on calamares while performing a fresh install? Thanks for the great work!

[omano]

I think that is actually the other way around. You can select BTRFS as file system, and it works with SWAP file.

@philm

This release features major improvements to Calamares, including filesystem selection for automatic partitioning and enhanced support for btrfs. For btrfs installations, the default subvolume layout has been improved for easier rollbacks and less wasted space on snapshots. Additionally, swapfiles on btrfs filesystem are now supported.

[AlanP]

What is matray used for ?