Exactly as the title states, I see my regular “plymouthd.conf” file but also a “plymouthd.confe” file. The contents of the files are exactly the same when I view them in nano. Was this a file I might’ve fat-fingered and created when sorting through the pacnew versions, and can be safely removed, or is this an actual system config file?
The answer is probably “yes” to both questions. Configuration files don’t have filename suffixes like .confe.
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Strange, I have it as well. Maybe left over from a typo in a previous package version? 
❯ pacman -Qo /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.confe
error: No package owns /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.confe
It can be safely removed as no package owns it and the actual configuration file is present.
EDIT: Based on the time the file was created / modified and cross-checking with my Pacman log, I determined it was in correlation with when plymouth-theme-manjaro was updated. Still not sure how it happened. 
❯ stat /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.confe
File: /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.confe
Size: 91 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 259,1 Inode: 23464141 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2026-01-11 14:36:14.800713356 -0700
Modify: 2026-01-11 14:36:14.801713342 -0700
Change: 2026-01-17 11:05:22.599800750 -0700
Birth: 2026-01-11 14:36:14.800713356 -0700
[2026-01-11T14:36:14-0700] [ALPM] upgraded plymouth-theme-manjaro (2.2-1 -> 2.2-2)
[2026-01-17T11:05:22-0700] [ALPM] upgraded plymouth-theme-manjaro (2.2-2 -> 2.2-3)
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Much appreciated for the fast reply, both of you!
The things I find when randomly exploring directories…
Mod edit: I’ve merged your posts as the intervening one was removed. 
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@Yochanan FYI, if I delete the .confe file and run “sudo pacman -Syu” again, it’ll reload it.
Yep, the file was recreated after updating to plymouth-theme-manjaro 2.2-4 which runs plymouth-set-default-theme -R (--rebuild-initrd) upon upgrade. I just ran the command manually and the file was recreated again. Apparently the issue is with Plymouth itself.
I couldn’t find any other reports except for one CachyOS user on r/cachyos mentioning the same thing about a year ago.
EDIT: With manjaro-plymouth-theme 2.2-5, plymouthd.confe will be removed after plymouth-set-default-theme is run.
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