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Since this update, every time I turn on my computer or wake it from sleep, I get prompted to enter the WiFi password for the network I automatically connect to. The same thing happens if I disconnect and reconnect to the network. Before, the password was remembered.

I’ve checked that kwalletmanager is installed and up-to-date. Its GUI doesn’t report any errors. I’ve also tried adding the password in the “Connnections” config GUI, but this has no effect (when I close and reopen the GUI the password is gone, and it still asks each time).

Edit: this persisted a reboot earlier, but I just rebooted again having reinstalled kwalletmanager and it seems alright now. @westwyv our issues sound similar, maybe give that a try.

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Yeah this is pretty garbage. I switched back to FireFox for that reason alone. I don’t believe it’s Manjaro specific, but I won’t bet my house on it. I think it’s Chrome ( and thus all Chromium based browsers ) using maybe libadwaita? That was my only guess b/c the last update I think included Gnome 42 and that’s when it started. It’s quite frustrating since I actively chose not to use Gnome for multiple reasons yet they have screwed up the look and feel of the system just because they want to. I sent a report to Google on that ( since all Chromium browsers seem to do that ) but yeah, the chance they care about my report is about 0. Maybe if lots of ppl complain

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Probably your LO profile is corrupted.
There is a bug already opened (https://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org/msg867462.html.

The solution is restore the user profile, if corrupted.
To test it, you can start LibreOffice and select Help ▸ Restart in Safe Mode, or open LO with a temporary new profile:

soffice -env:UserInstallation=file:///tmp/test

In the WIKI you will find some directions.

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Today’s update:

package updated:

manjaro-gnome-settings-20220526-1

Got this message:

We have switched back to QGnomePlatform for GNOME 42.
 qt5ct and qt6ct (Qt Configuration Utilities) may be marked as orphans.
 If you want use QGnomePlatform with the Adwaita Qt style,
 you'll need remove or comment the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME variable
 in /etc/environment.

What should I do? Have no idea if I should remove or change it somehow,.

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Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for

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If you don’t know what those are about: Uniform look for Qt and GTK applications - ArchWiki

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gnome-calculator: Ctrl-Z stop working after this upgrade.

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Akonadi with MySQL/MariaDB fails too often for me. Switched to PostgreSQL instead.

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I think this is related to… "Hotspot Login" pops up in Network Login app when waking from sleep - #17 by GaVenga
I use ethernet, not wifi, and I am getting “Wired Ethernet: Connected to Ethernet (log in required)” on mouseover of my network connection systray icon… there was a similar “Network Manager” popup I closed; dismissing it knowing I didn’t need to login to my ethernet network before realizing it was also echo’d in the systray.

In my case, /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf is pointing to http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt, which if I open in a browser throws a 404 Page not found.

EDIT:
I’ve updated my file to include a few of the typical replacements/options, opting to use KDE for now:

[connectivity]
#uri=http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt
#uri=http://www.archlinux.org/check_network_status.txt
#uri=http://nmcheck.gnome.org/check_network_status.txt
uri=http://networkcheck.kde.org

…and all was well after a service restart with $ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager

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temporary Work-Arround:

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I’m not sure about the errors with
journalctl -r
but the UI errors seemed to have been fixed after a few restarts.

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Hello,
after update, no sound output from any application.

Sound Blaster Z, pipewire-git & wireplumber. Only dummy output sink available.

My solution: rebuild all AUR pipewire packages in use:

pipewire-full-alsa-git
pipewire-full-ffmpeg-git
pipewire-full-git
pipewire-full-jack-client-git
pipewire-full-pulse-git
pipewire-full-v4l2-git
pipewire-full-zeroconf-git

After GNOME session restart, sound worked normally.

Regards.

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Same here.
Also Wi-Fi started displaying “log-in required” popup for some reason (it works fine, though).

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Thank you!

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Posts #5 and #6 (in the linked thread) show you a workaround by creating a new .conf file and restarting the NetworkManager service. You can keep this change as a permanent solution too, there’s no harm done.

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I’ve just noticed that my whole desktop (KDE) went black - no wallpapers, no icons. Any help is appreciated.

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Correct - but: /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf
exists in system already (I use Gnome)

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what is your DE?
with no desktop you mean completely blank screen?
provide more info

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Since you’re on KDE.

Are you using dual monitors? Can you test it out with only a single display?

Otherwise, you can try the following to see if it helps out:

  1. Log out of KDE

  2. Switch to TTY2:

  • CTRL + ALT + F2

  1. Login to this TTY2 terminal

  2. Stop the display-manager service:

  • sudo systemctl stop display-manager
  1. Move/delete the old kscreen config:
  • mv -v $HOME/.local/share/kscreen $HOME/.local/share/kscreen.bak
  1. Rebuild the KDE cache:
  • kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental

  1. Wait about 30 seconds

  2. Then finally restart the display-manager service and login to KDE:

  • sudo systemctl restart display-manager && exit
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