[Stable Update] 2024-01-13 - Kernels, Systemd, Qt5, Mesa, Dbus, Firefox, Thunderbird

[MrLavender]

Nope. Steam works fine for me on KDE and if it was broken there would be a lot more posts about it. It’s something specific to your system.

[anon51566685]

@1efaf7d71a8637c6800a

Just wanted to mention that both pamac cli and pacman tell you about a conflict

warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: mhwd-db will be installed before its mhwd dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: mhwd-db will be installed before its mhwd dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: mhwd-db will be installed before its mhwd dependency

Read again. That’s not a conflict. And it goes through without doing anything.

[RazorClaw]

Maybe this will help look here.
TLDR: Downgrade pixman 0.43.0-1 back to 0.42.2-1, did the trick for me.

[dolour]

Thanks mate, that solved it.

[Daniel-I]

I’ve been spending more time on my SteamDeck lately that I found my main rig 2-3 months behind on updates; and figured today was the day.

Imagine my surprise (post update/reboot) when GRUB only gave me the option to log in as root as I was in “maintenance mode”… rebooted, paid more attention to the scrolling boot text, and found that nvme01 was not a happy camper. I thought it was odd that the system didn’t boot as nvme01 is not my boot/os drive until I remembered drives listed in /etc/fstab need to be there.

Thankfully I remembered the following commands:

1. lsblk -f to get a list of the UUID’s for the drives the system was using, so that I could
2. nano /etc/fstab and rem out (#) the drive that failed (not in the lsblk list)

Rebooted and all is well (minus a failed drive) as I’m back in the OS once more… but definitely a scary moment. I’m going to have to dig into learning the changes required for “mount on demand” on my non-system drives.

[megalomaniakaal]

@fsw

in a file in the /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ directory

How to access directory without terminal under plasma-wayland?

[fsw]

You’re really missing on the simplicity and speed of the CLI and a sudo nano /path/to/the/directory/name_of the_file > write or paste the text with Ctrl+Shift+V > Ctrl+O to save > Ctrl+X to quit. You could also do a half-way GUI/half-way CLI by creating the file in your home directory with your favorite editor, then sudo cp -v /home/you/your_file /path/to/the/directory/it/should/go/, but if you want to do it the full “GUI and as root”, I recommend you to read those pages:

Manjaro KDE dolphin ROOT

Hi. Please help me. How do I open dolphin file explorer with root permission? I tried terminal command: su dolphin ; sudo dolphin - Doesn’t work.

Running Dolphin as root

There are cases when it’s necessary to open the Dolphin file manager as root, to edit OS files my user account doesn’t normally have access to. I only do this when necessary and yes I’m aware of the dangers… never broke anything in a decade this way so it’s all good. On openSUSE there’s a default shortcut to launch Dolphin as root, using the command dbus-launch dolphin -qwindowtitle "%c" "%u": I tried this in Manjaro but it causes Dolphin to open normally there. Manjaro doesn’t offer a builtin …

Kate seems able to handle it, but I can’t confirm this, as I’m using neither KDE nor Wayland…

[megalomaniakaal]

@fsw

You’re really missing on the simplicity and speed of the CLI and a sudo nano /path/to/the/directory/name_of the_file > write or paste the text with Ctrl+Shift+V > Ctrl+O to save > Ctrl+X to quit.

I’ve been through the rigamarole over a decade ago(not completely new to linux, though certainly a bit rusty), just tired of it. I’d like to have the option of going gui/mouse driven interaction when I feel like it. I’m not against doing larger operations via terminal, though. There are situations where it genuinely becomes more convenient that way.

@fsw

Kate seems able to handle it, but I can’t confirm this, as I’m using neither KDE nor Wayland…

Perhaps Kate can save files into the directory, but alas it can’t browse into it(same as dolphin) so won’t be opening any files from it either. No way to see what even might be inside there if any.

I’m pretty sure this is manjaro specific tho, like KDE/dolphin can if configured for it do these things, but whatever the manjaro polkit rules are just wont allow for it. I’m on Testing btw, may have something to do with it perhaps.

[fsw]

Have you tried this ?

Open Dolphin as root

Otherwise, I think Manjaro allows GUI login as root, so you could do your editing, and log out / log back in as your regular user when done.
It might not be as convenient as what you would like, but could be the next best (and simple) thing…

[megalomaniakaal]

No but I’ve tried this without success:

Dolphin as root under Wayland?

Hi guys, Ok, I found the solution to make dolphin as root work under Wayland. It is work very well. For those who are interested, here is the tip: Create the ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ folder if it doesn’t exist (to use for only the user). If you want to use for everybody, then look at /usr/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/ (the folder exists). In it, create a DolphinAsRootWayland.desktop file (with Kate). Edit this file and add the following lines: [Desktop Entry] Type=Se…

I recon it’s probably essentially the same thing. TBH it’s probably time to distro hop and work with a clean install again anyways so I’m probably going to stop diggin’ on this systems issues soon. They aren’t major, but annoying enough.

[derk]

kde /plasma walled garden issues … pkexec kate or sudo kate fail…

I tend to use mc (midnight commander) a console based gui app for this kind of thing

sudo mc

You’ll need to silence any f10 shortcut in order to exit cleanly , or use the mouse… has a built in editor function

activate under options/panel → lynx-like motion and you can use the arrow keys to change directories

[Aragorn]

@derk

kde /plasma walled garden issues … pkexec kate or sudo kate fail…

There is no need to use pkexec or sudo with kate, because kate is polkit-aware. It will ask you for a password when needed.

[papajoke]

@fsw

Have you tried this ? Open Dolphin as root [KDE5/KDE6] - KDE Store
Otherwise, I think Manjaro allows GUI login as root, so you could do your editing, and log out / log back in as your regular user when done.

NO NO !!!
The official way ! kde recommends using the admin protocol, which works with dolphin if kio-admin is installed
dolphin admin:///etc/

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And, with kio-admin, we have in dolphin a menu “open as admin” : dolphin - config - context menu - Administrative Actions (dolphin display this context menu only in directories owned by root)

[anon6547204]

If it absolutely has to be, then maybe like this:

sudo pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY KDE_SESSION_VERSION=5 KDE_FULL_SESSION=true dbus-launch dolphin

[fsw]

Thanks for the tip, it seems I missed that one! As I said, I don’t use KDE on Manjaro, and rather use the CLI when I’m on Mageia and OpenSuse, but I will give it a try next time I boot one of those…
@megalomaniakaal that might indeed be the answer to your problem, as the one who wrote it said the reason for doing it was “I’ve gotten annoyed with the inability to manage system files so I’ve made a KIO worker that enables Dolphin to view and edit files as root.”
Have a look here: KIO Admin | 💺 Blog

[megalomaniakaal]

@papajoke

kde recommends using the admin protocol, which works with dolphin if kio-admin is installed
dolphin admin:///etc/

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And, with kio-admin, we have in dolphin a menu “open as admin” : dolphin - config - context menu - Administrative Actions (dolphin display this context menu only in directories owned by root)

Just to confirm, this seems to be the best method indeed and actually works. (As I expected the locked directory was empty, but without the sanity check I couldn’t know for sure).

[fsw]

Beware that there was (quote) “a crash that occurred when using kio-admin to do privilege escalation” that is now fixed with KDE Frameworks 5.115.
Source here: KDE Frameworks 5.115 Improves Copy/Move of Large Number of Files - 9to5Linux

[cgoise]

Hi guys, please don’t hate me for asking this question… It’s not a criticism.

I just noticed that it is taking an unusually long time for the new stable release to appear.

Are we waiting for something specific? For… Plasma 6 maybe? Or are there other show stoppers?