[Stable Update] 2024-05-13 - Kernels, Plasma 6, Gnome 46, LxQT 2.0, Nvidia, Pacman

[VanC]

I looked up your previous posts, my connections don’t work aswell after the update. How did you resolve the issue? Downgrading doesn’t help.

edit:
okay tried again, downgrading does help.
Seems to be an issue with the kerberos auth in freerdp version 3. The fallback to NTLM seems to be broken?
Earlier remminas (1.4.33) use freerdp2, which uses NTLM by default.

So for anyone interested:

• downgraded to remmina 1.4.33
• installed freerdp2

We have to wait for a fix in freerdp after 3.5.1 I guess, related:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=294509

[arch,kerberos] Freerdp 3 authentication hangs due to broken krb5.conf

[Keruskerfuerst]

I noticed two problems in KDE 6:

1. Clipboard not working correctly.
2. Copy and paste does not work with LibreOffice 24.2.3 (I opened a thread for that)

[soundofthunder]

@Keruskerfuerst

I noticed two problems in KDE 6:

It seems to be working as expected here (using Wayland).

[mason]

I use KDE, and after updating, I found that in Konsole, the Nerdfonts fallback on my font (JuliaMono) stopped working, and just showed blank icons. I switched to the JuliaMono Nerdfonts AUR package which fixed it, but it’s annoying that this broke.

[soundofthunder]

@mason

but it’s annoying that this broke

For reference, there are no shortage of nerd font packages available in the official repositories:

pamac search nerd

Cheers.

[mason]

So what? I had a font I already wanted to use and did not want to switch away from and something in Konsole stopped it from properly falling back to a Nerdfont.

[Keruskerfuerst]

With KDE 5.27, Nvidia driver and Wayland, I had a hard lock of the computer.

After pressing the reset button, the bios reported 10 beeps and the computer did not start.

Then I had to turn off the computer (not reset).

[soundofthunder]

@mason

So what?

So what?

It was (as was said) for reference. You’re free to use any font you wish, but that freedom doesn’t extend to shooting the messenger.

Calm yourself @mason

@Keruskerfuerst

With KDE 5.27, Nvidia driver and Wayland, I had a hard lock of the computer.

Yes, the Nvidia + Wayland combination still tends to be troublesome. I’m fortunate, in that I opted for amdgpu, which seems quite stable with Wayland.

[beermad]

One minor funny. When I tried to install the new from Manjaro Settings Manager, I just got a message that it had failed (no other helpful info). Tried another reboot, but still the same.

So I got round it by installing mhwd then running
sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux69

This may help someone else out.

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

@cannium

I see high cpu usage when screen is locked, seems to be a kwin bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=484323

Oh that is not new for me (multi screen, X11)…

[mohamed_zhran]

after this update. the primary monitor is switched to the left monitor after reboot although it’s set to the right monitor I’m using kde wayland

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

@Keruskerfuerst

Copy and paste does not work with LibreOffice 24.2.3 (I opened a thread for that)

Try Onlyoffice

[robbie-hatley]

Surprisingly, this huge update went well and functionally everything worked fine afterwords (as far as I can tell after two days of use). There were a few no-longer-supported packages that needed to be upgraded, replaced, or removed, and I ran pacdiff and handled all pacnew files. But I experienced no major functional problems.

Cosmetically, though, there were a few issues:

1. The Login and Splash screens I was using are no-longer supported. (Workaround: I switched to screens that worked.)

2. Most icons were “sheets of white paper with folded upper-right corners”. This turned out to be due to the latest version of Plasma not liking the icon theme (Enlightenment-X) I was using. (Workaround: I switched to “Papirus”, then manually set a few select items to use Enlightenment-X icons.)

3. “Show Desktop Grid” appears to no-longer be an option for “move mouse to screen edge triggering”. (Workaround: the desktop grid can be shown by keyboard Meta-G instead.)

4. X-Screensaver no longer works at all in Wayland (though it still works in X11). (Workaround: I haven’t found any. But this isn’t a high-priority item.)

Other than those issues, both the functionality and the cosmetics are improved. The “app-launcher menu items go under bottom panel in Wayland” bug is gone. The “splash screens don’t splash in Wayland” bug is gone. The “Desktop Cube” effect is cool. And the new “Bottom Panel Dodges Windows” panel setting is exquisite. I’m liking Plasma 6 a lot.

[MajorMayer]

Two more issues that I noticed with the KDE desktop:

1. Mostly when i wake up my system from sleep, one display stays dark until i manually power it off and on again.
   This is already reported here: 482684 – Issues after wake up from power save

2. In SDDM, the position of my screens doesn’t match the one that I set for Plasma, which was the case with Plasma 5.
   How can I change this or is this a known bug?

3. The lock screen was already failing for the second time in just two days:
   

   
   
   Easy to resolve, but still annoying and shouldn’t happen.
   Edit: Probably this bug: 485084 – Screen Locker broken on resume from sleep

[lukinhasb]

@MajorMayer

Mostly when i wake up my system from sleep, one display stays dark until i manually power it off and on again.

I have EXACTLY the same issue.

Also, my Xorg CPU usage is very high, windows are laggy.

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

As a workaround for the 2 post above, if you have a working hibernate, use that instead of sleepmode. It will consume no power from your outlet too.

[hasezoey]

Today i had done this upgrade everything seemed fine, but once i tried to make a git commit i noticed that pinentry was not using the secret service anymore.
My setup is KDE (with KWallet disabled) and KeepassXC (with secret service enabled).
I had tried the other pinentry variants (-gnome, -qt, -curses), none of which did any libsecret anymore.

After some digging i found that pinentry was upgraded to 1.3.0-1, which had the following change: core: Disable secret storage integration when running on KDE Plasma.

Reverting to pinentry 1.2.1-3 resolves the issue for now.

UPDATE:
I also now just tried overwriting XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP to force 1.3.0 to continue using libsecret, which works successfully:

mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user/gpg-agent.service.d

cat << EOF | tee ~/.config/systemd/user/gpg-agent.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
Environment=XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=none
EOF

systemctl --user restart gpg-agent.service

[Yochanan]

It was removed as it was not applicable to the stable branch.

[1efaf7d71a8637c6800a]

Oops sorry, I had read this in the meanwhile while forgetting to edit or remove my post.

[soundofthunder]

@MajorMayer

Easy to resolve, but still annoying and shouldn’t happen.

Was this repetitive?
One user complained that this happened ‘every time’.