So, this stable update wasn’t so stable for me. After wasting my weekend narrowing down to the faulty packages with a manual binary search (and entering my 16 character crypt password every reboot and timeshift restore), I have identified the culprits.
I am using Manjaro Cinnamon (Community) and the broken packages are libwacom
and muffin
.
When I install libwacom
, LightDM will fail to respond to keyboard, mouse, touchpad, and trackpoint input. I have added it to the ‘Ignore’ list in Pamac settings.
When I install the latest muffin
, upon logging in, the wallpaper is black, no panels are shown, and the desktop environment seems to have not started. My startup applications do run however. Additionally, shortcuts (to open the terminal for example) do not work.
Another issue, the culprit of which I was unable to identify, is when opening Display in System Settings, when I move my second monitor to be vertically adjacent to the primary laptop screen, and then click “Apply”, I get the following message indicating something with the settings manager’s dbus
communication is borked.
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.cinnamon.SettingsDaemon.XRANDR_2 was not provided by any .service files
I’m a little annoyed at all of this today, I had software to write, and plans tomorrow that I’d rather not attend.
Does anyone have any suggestions to fix the monitor issue, and any idea how I could report the problems with muffin
and libwacom
?