Update to my own post:
the problem is the option Enable Unity7 like glossy backlit items under Customize windows counter indicators. When this option is set to on, the items in the dash have a glossy background. But when the extension is switched off and on again, the items in the dock are gone.
I verified it with another laptop that was not updated yet: this behaviour has not changed in the last update!
Problems in computers with opensource video drivers are solved like so:
sudo pacman -Rd --nodep gdm
sudo pacman -S gdm
With proprietary drivers, I have not found a solution ???
I install the aur version (v 1.4-3) and it’s solves the problem.
yay -Sa optimus-manager
(Don’t forget the “a” or yay will install the old v 1.4-2 from official repository,
and I think it was python 3.9 to python 3.10 who break optimus manager.)
Otherwise everything else work fine. Thanks for all the updates !
Installing graphviz (2.50.0-1)... [53/81]
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not. Try ldd.
Warning: Could not load "/usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gtk.so.6" - It was found, so perhaps one of its dependents was not. Try ldd.
ldd /usr/lib/graphviz/libgvplugin_gdk.so.6 said that libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 was missing.
pamac search libgdk-x11 said it belongs in package gtk2.
I have no recollection of removing gtk2, but maybe it was removed as an orphan at some time.
Nevermind, pamac install gtk2 fixed he problem.
I updated to 1.4-3, but I still got the error on optimus-manager.
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla systemd[1]: Starting Optimus Manager Commands Daemon...
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla python3[609]: /usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'optimus_manager>
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla python3[671]: /usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'optimus_manager>
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla systemd[1]: Started Optimus Manager Commands Daemon.
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla python3[718]: /usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'optimus_manager>
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla systemd[1]: optimus-manager.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla python3[762]: /usr/bin/python3: Error while finding module specification for 'optimus_manager>
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla systemd[1]: optimus-manager.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
dic 18 00:22:35 tesla systemd[1]: optimus-manager.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
My package is from official repository:
community/optimus-manager 1.4-3 [installed]
Management utility to handle GPU switching for Optimus laptops
After I updated, now after suspend, the system does not recover, instead a black screen, it seems to me this is due to the fact that I have a fermi video card (390xx driver)
On KDE I wanted the green Dolphin icon back, instead of the blue one. To do this I tried to change my theme. Once I did, I got the KDE logo on the Application Launcher button rather than the Manjaro one. I’d like to get the Manjaro Logo back. The Manjaro Logo is shown in the screenshot for the theme I am on (Breath Dark).
I also would love to get the green Dolphin logo back. It made Dolphin feel like it matched the default color scheme so much better.
I decided to have a go at it. After some tinkering I could not get the audio devices to show up. Eventually I decided to rollback the ALSA update to 1.2.5.1, restarted and voila the audio devices are back.
Well the blue Dolphin logo should resolve itself with a later KDE update as the Manjaro team worked with the KDE dev team to make it color aware to the color scheme. You could reinstall Breath icon theme and use that but is depricated so no garantee it will work later on down the line. So default is now Breeze icon theme and you should use that.
To fix the Starter Icon you could rightklick on the taskbar and enter “edit mode”, then hover the mouse over the start menu and klick on settings … there you could change the icon.
i don’t think you can change the dolphin icon color from blue to green because that is the one that comes in breath dark theme. for getting back manjaro icon right click on the application launcher and select configure. there you can change the icon buy searching for manjaro.
Having an issue with steam, was playing a game before updating, updated, and now it hangs on ‘preparing to launch’.
I then checked the steam settings and the setting to enable proton for all non-linux games was unticked for some reason, I try to tick it after which steam requires a restart but it fails to restart, I get:
Thread "CJobMgr::m_WorkThreadPool:2" (ID 114032) failed to shut down
Spammed at me. Only way for me to exit steam is to kill it. No known solution.
Also to make matters worse, my GUI theme got all messed up after the update (I’m on KDE, qt applications display properly, but gtk applications seem to be using the wrong theme all of a sudden.) but that was easy to fix, just had to reapply it.
Also optimus-manager is not working
$ optimus-manager
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/optimus-manager", line 33, in <module>
sys.exit(load_entry_point('optimus-manager==1.4', 'console_scripts', 'optimus-manager')())
File "/usr/bin/optimus-manager", line 22, in importlib_load_entry_point
for entry_point in distribution(dist_name).entry_points
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 524, in distribution
return Distribution.from_name(distribution_name)
File "/usr/lib/python3.9/importlib/metadata.py", line 187, in from_name
raise PackageNotFoundError(name)
importlib.metadata.PackageNotFoundError: optimus-manager