Manjaro sway settings update

Hello

I just did an update which required to run skel followed by swaymsg reload, and it basically broke everything. My .zshrc was overridden without backup, and my sway config broke (for example my keybinds did not work anymore). I reverted everything, removed .config and replaced it by the backup done by the update, got back my .zshrc from a manual backup I did few months ago, and that’s it. What was that ? what is this update supposed to do ? why did it break everything ?

Ok so :

  • .zshrc was overriden without backup, and .config/zsh/.zshrc was also overriden, but this time with a backup. What am I supposed to do if I do not want to use p10k / manjaro prompt system ? I just commented everything in ~/.zshrc, and rewrote ~/.config/zsh/.zshrc to disable everything, is there a way that will work and avoid everything being erased at each update ?
  • Same for sway, I had modifications in ~/.config/sway/config, notably I commented the line for modes, because I’m using my own binds and I get an error if both modes and my config in ~.config/sway/config.d are loaded.

That is, what skel is supposed to do: backup and then copy from etc/skel to your $HOME. I didn’t even know the ARM edition had this too. In the x86 edition we created several ways so we can do skel but keep our configuration. Read more about it here.

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