[Stable Update] 2022-12-20 - Kernels, XFCE 4.18, KDE Frameworks, Kde Gear, Mesa, Plasma-Mobile, Thunderbird, Firefox

Because I wanted to see how HiDPI support is coming along, I installed a version from the shotwell development branch built from the AUR:

❯ pacman -Qi shotwell
Name            : shotwell-git
Version         : 0.31.5.r84.g025d3826-1
Build Date      : za 12 nov 2022 10:51:18 CET

so maybe that is the reason. Thanks!

Backlight control stopped working again when switching to kernel 6.1 on my Intel/Nvidia Legion laptop, has been working since 5.16.

With this update the startup time has increased. Usually my system used to boot in about 2.277 seconds:

Startup finished in 1.123s (kernel) + 595ms (initrd) + 558ms (userspace) = 2.277s 
graphical.target reached after 558ms in userspace

Now it takes about 4 seconds:

Startup finished in 1.212s (kernel) + 706ms (initrd) + 2.125s (userspace) = 4.043s 
graphical.target reached after 2.118s in userspace.

Reported in a dedicated thread:

It is - you need to rebuild it.

Anyone „fixed“ the date / clock format on taskbar xfce?

It’s shows:
YYYY-MM-DD
Time
instead of
DD. Dec. Time
like before.

There are no presets to set it up like before.

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I have black screen instead of XFCE panels. .xsession-errors says:

/usr/bin/iceauth:  creating new authority file /run/user/1000/ICEauthority
gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one
xfce4-panel: symbol lookup error: xfce4-panel: undefined symbol: xfce_gdk_device_grab
Thunar: symbol lookup error: Thunar: undefined symbol: xfce_g_file_is_trusted

See UPDATE below!

I have no libxfce4ui-nocsd, but I do have

libxfce4ui-devel
libxfce4util-devel

There are packages depending on them:

~ pacman -Qi libxfce4ui-devel | grep 'Depends On'
Depends On      : libxfce4util>=4.15.6  xfconf  libsm  startup-notification  hicolor-icon-theme  gtk3  libgtop
~ pacman -Qi libxfce4util-devel | grep 'Depends On'                     
Depends On      : glib2

I have replaced dbus-x11 with dbus. Should I replace libxfce4ui-devel and libxfce4util-devel with libxfce4ui and libxfce4util?

I’m just a regular user, so please give clear instructions. Thank you!

UPDATE: I did install standard libxfce4ui and libxfce4util instead of -devel but it did nothing. The same .xsession-errors.

How can I learn where those xfce_gdk_device_grab and xfce_g_file_is_trusted happen?

I also have an error window because of Birdtray:

Fatal error: Sorry, system tray cannot be controlled through this add-on on your operating system.

Log file is written into file /tmp/birdtray-log.txt

and that log file is empty.

UPDATE2: I removed birdtray (a flatpack application), it sped up the loading, but didn’t help otherwise. How should I debug the problem of the absent XFCE panels?

Seems mostly good on my KDE Plasma system, except for the annoyance that when I open a konsole, the journal gets hit with messages saying:

Dec 21 12:02:11 konsole[13113]: kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "" "Show Quick Commands" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.
Dec 21 12:02:11 konsole[13113]: kf.xmlgui: Shortcut for action  "" "Show SSH Manager" set with QAction::setShortcut()! Use KActionCollection::setDefaultShortcut(s) instead.

then every now and then the journal gets spammed with lots of messages saying:

konsole[8999]: QPen::setWidth: Setting a pen width that is out of range

I can’t find anything about these messages with a Web search.

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choose design then go to time go to format then customize…it’s right there for me
example:
%B %e %H:%M

Had same issue.
Removing lib32-db solved it
pacman -R lib32-db

Hi community! Thanks for all your hard work.

I had extremely glitchy KDE with this version of Mesa. Opening anything would make it glitch a lot. journalctl did not show anything obvious nor any coredumpctl.

Used downgrade to downgrade everything and got it back working properly. In my case it was:

downgrade mesa mesa-vdpau opencl-mesa vulkan-mesa-layers lib32-libva-mesa-driver lib32-mesa lib32-mesa-vdpau libva-mesa-driver 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
GPU: AMD Radeon 6800M
Kernel: 6.0.14

That also happened to me and I followed the steps from this post:

No, still happening so in my case I reverted again to kernel 5.15.78.

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The same problem. this guide didn’t work.
Rolled back to a snapshot from a week ago and the update worked perfectly

i set mine as follows:

Right click clock in panel and choose properties

Choose time only and select custom format
Use this as format:
%a, %d %b %Y, %R
Set font size to 9 and font type to Noto Sans Bold

It will look like it was before

Release annoucement of XFCE 4.18: https://www.xfce.org/

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4 posts were split to a new topic: Update downloaded and installed a part of gnome

hello, ibt=off at linux boot.
Work for me .

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I am having an issue when I try to update. I get this error message:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing db (6.2.32-1) breaks dependency ‘db=5.3.28’ required by lib32-db

I see now this has been noted and solved by removing the lib32-db

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Same thing for me, on Thinkpad T420, iGPU.
I’ll try installing dbus, and reboot and see how it goes.
issue started after updating and switching to kernel 6.1
UPDATE:
Yup, iT’s the kernek 6.1 issues, also CPU temps are very high with 6.1