Manjaro ARM Beta4 with Plasma-Mobile (PinePhone)

Such a “Settings” When I access Settings, and then for example, go into Workspace Behavior, the left half of the screen is Workspace Behavior sub-menus (like General Behavior etc) And then the right half is said sub-menus option. However, in vertical mode, the words run off the edge of the right hand portion of the screen…

I am unsure as to which release I am using. Is there a way I can tell?

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I’m pretty much sure it’s not the current stable release, as this setting doesn’t even exist in the default settings menu (unless you go through kcmshell5 or something else through terminal).

Have you downloaded and flashed the OS manually, or is it pre-installed?
If you haven’t updated packages yet, perform sudo pacman -Syyu once.
In the current release there should be no Workspace Behavior settings in the default settings menu.

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Ok I ran sudo pacman -Syyu and ran the update I was prompted with. However, I can not tell a difference in anything. I still have the same issues that I laid out above :sweat_smile:

Is there any way I can tell which release I am running? Because I am only running what PinePhone sent me (apart from adding the odd app here and there)

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Maybe it’s dev release you’re on. Last time I flashed the dev release the welcome screen itself was offscreen (couldn’t even initialize the setup in the welcome screen), so gave up flashing the stable release back. You better flash the stable release to your PP. To know more about flashing the image, head towards Pine64 Wiki.

Strange, I suspect you are right. I guess Pinephone is shipping their new releases with KDE in a dev state?

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Also wanted to run sudo pacman -Syyu and I get asked if I want to replace this and replace that. Not sure what to do? YES/NO to everything?

Whenever an update asks to replace anything, they are recommended by the packagers (here, Manjaro) to replace, so YES is recommended.

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Can you please add iptable_raw and ip6table_raw kernel modules? I think wg-quick needs it.

It depends. My new PP has arrived 2021-05-13 11:28 :partying_face: = PinePhone v1.2b [https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone#Hardware_revisions] with arm-stable [https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Pacman-mirrors#What_branch_am_I_on].

I see. I am still lost on exactly how I can check what version I am running.

Versions of what?

  • Linux kernel - uname -a (manpage)
  • application - usually <AplicationName> --version (e.g. firefox --version)
  • Manjarno branch - pacman-mirrors --get-branch (ref)
  • version x branch

But I think the problem is updating vs. flushing. Have a look at this thread.
There is no way to find out from a running system which image (stable and unstable branch) was used when flashing, I’m afraid.

Not sure but I think Dev release uses kde-unstable. Please check if you have

[kde-unstable]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

in /etc/pacman.conf.

When might the Plamo Beta 5 be expected?

Soon™. :wink:

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I knew better than to ask, sometimes I do things that defy rationality. :smiley:

Regarding the known Wi-Fi issues.

When I got my Beta Edition phone I had issues to connect to my Wi-Fi during the initial setup while WPA3 was enabled. When I switched it to WPA2-only the connection worked just fine.

After updating the system via Discover I re-enabled WPA3 and it connected just fine.

I didn’t try WPA3 again before I ran the update. So the issue might be fixed by a newer package or might only apply to the setup wizard.

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I installed a nightly build. Not sure which, but just completed pacman -Syyu, so am assuming I have the latest builds now?

When I set an alarm, it doesn’t trigger until after i press the power button. I also sometime notice the clock isn’t right for a split second. I assume the 2 issues are related?

How do I access /etc/pacman.conf? Where is that located?

Sometimes my alarm on mine wont trigger unless I tap the screen. Other times it works fine haha.

@Iwanttolinux It seems a lot are there to explain. Please open a new topic in Plasma Mobile category, explaining the issue or question in detail, so that we can have a separate discussion dedicated to your issue only.

Quick answer for this question

Here, the file is “pacman.conf” and the path where it is located is “/etc/”.

There are many ways to access a file. One is through a file manager (In plasma mobile, the default file manager preinstalled is Index) opening the file in the proper path, other easier and faster way is using a terminal command like cat.

In this case, you can use:

cat /etc/pacman.conf

To find for only the required text in this file if it exists:

cat /etc/pacman.conf | grep -A1 "\[kde-unstable\]"