This update breaks something either tied to monitor resolution, or window rules.
Here’s the chain of events for me. Yesterday I installed the latest update, and after restart I noticed that programs don’t start with maximized horizontally/vertically as instructed. So after not finding a fix to it, I decided to restore a previous Timeshift.
This somehow broke my grub… “grub debug malloc not found” error on startup. Again I tried anything I could find on these forums, got on a live usb and used chroot to do grub-install and update-grub, and even though it said it was reinstalled, the problem was still there.
So eventually I reached the nuclear option and wiped my boot drive and reinstalled manjaro, the latest Plasma stable version from the site, the one from August 26th. After installation was done, I fiddled with it a bit and I gave it a “pamac update”. And the problem with the window rules was back. I’ve tried restoring previous Timeshifts again, different ones, but somehow my booting was broken again and had to reinstall manjaro again…
So right now I’m using Manjaro 2022-08-26
KDE 5.24.6
KDE Frameworks 5.96.0
Qt Version 5.15.5
Kernel 5.15.60-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform X11
Hardware: AMD 5800X + GeForce 2070 Super + 32GB RAM, monitors 1440p primary and 1080p secondary
If on this fresh manjaro install, I do the latest update, window rules get broken. Maximize horizontally/vertically gets broken. Even without window rules, some programs don’t want to maximize when double clicking the top bar. Some notifications appear close to the middle of the screen (lower and to the right compared to center), so I think the resolution is seen as much smaller than it is. If I open firefox on the 1440p screen, it still gets “maximized” to 1080p.
So Manjaro stable release 2022-08-26 + update 2022-11-14 cause problems with resolution and window rules. I suspect something the nvidia drivers are at fault, the linux 515.65 that come with the stable release are OK, the update bumps them to 520.56.06 and I think that’s the issue.
I could try to do the full update while ignoring linux515 and linux515-nvidia, and if any of you got any other suggestions of apps to ignore… maybe we can single out the culprit.
Oh and one more question… What happened to Steam, doesn’t it come preinstalled in Manjaro anymore?