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

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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.

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

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580

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

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

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The mouse section in Plasma’s systemsettings is empty after this update. I’ve created a support thread here with some diagnostic information.

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583

See Apps not showing up in menus / Applications & Desktop Environments / Arch Linux Forums
Make sure you create a snapshot first.

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XFCE user here: No significant update issues, but my system theme matcha-dark-aliz was not being applied to certain apps like VLC and Nextcloud Desktop. Installing the package kvantum-qt5 cleared up all my theme related issues.

HT to @Teo for the fix.

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No, not every time, but 2 times in the last 2 days, which is more often then on Plasma 5.

Edit: Got it again right now, but this time it said loginctl unlock-session 24 …?

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Updated my HTPC today. This time doing things properly. Or at least better than on my laptop.

Ran into a startup bug in qBittorrent 4.6.4. Luckily the fix is already done and will ship with 4.6.5

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587

Thanks for the advice! i’ll try this to the best of my ability (and common sense) and i’ll let you know if anything spontaneously explodes or not… wish me luck… :innocent:

Oh that’s a very useful tip! Thanks! Next time someone asks me to download and run a new program I can look all smart now knowing exactly what executable to use… :wink:

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See [Stable Update] 2024-05-13 - Kernels, Plasma 6, Gnome 46, LxQT 2.0, Nvidia, Pacman - #402

About the “error message quote”, see the moderator edit message at the bottom of your post.

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You missed a few important steps…

  1. Logout
  2. Use Ctrl+Alt+F3 (or substitute F3 for F4/F5/F6/F7) to login to a TTY shell
  3. Delete (or rename) the ~/.cache directory:
    rm -rf ~/.cache (to delete it)
    mv ~/.cache ~/.cache_old (to rename it)
    This must not be done while logged in to the Plasma shell.
  4. Logout from the TTY using: exit
  5. Switch back to SDDM (login screen) Ctrl+Alt+F2
  6. Reboot.
    The cache will be regenerated (like a timelord) at next login.
  7. Login to Manjaro.

I hope this helps. Cheers. :vulcan_salute:

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590

I’m wondering if others have had the same experience with this Plasma 6 update:

  • All icons on the desktop (folder mode) lost their position
  • The taskbar got completely wrong with duplicate widgets everywhere including the task manager
  • The widgets on the desktop got removed
  • The wallpaper got reset
  • The mouse icons got reset
  • The font got set to forced PPP
  • The app launcher menu button isn’t Manjaro themed anymore
    etc.
    I also had problems with icons due to the icon theme I used.

I guess the KDE developers didn’t care to implement settings migration.

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I guess you didn’t follow the recommended update procedures mentioned near the beginning of this very thread:

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That just confirms what I’ve said: we have to reset everything to default before the update, because the KDE developers didn’t implement settings migration.

But thanks for the link, I didn’t notice this got added.

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Welcome.

You might have some semblence of recovery from this by following directions in my post above (scroll up a little, or click the following link):

I hope this help. Cheers.

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Migration either happened or wasn’t needed for my system. The only problem was downloaded widgets that didn’t support Plasma-6, but that’s down to the widget developers rather than KDE.

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Ok so the good news is I did the whole pacnew-checker thingy until there where no more pacnews left to check! and lo and behold my computer hath not yet exploded! So that’s a relief… :blush: (my common sense also told me to back up all the relevant config and .pacnew files in question juuust in case I mess something up)

The not so great news is that my TTY situation is still as bleak as the deepest depths of outer space… so I created a new topic here in case anyone can help: Switching to TTY from GUI yields a black screen without any text or login prompt

Thank you to everyone who replied and tried to help me. You guys are all great. :+1:

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596

Another (painful) problem with Plasma 6. Window rules are no longer put into effect, so windows are being placed all over the screen rather than where I want them.

A particular pain for me as I rely on precise window locations for automated keypresses in my photo editing workflow. Looks like I’m going to have to implement something using wmctrl as a workaround :frowning_face:

[Edit 2]: OK, my first “fix” wasn’t after all correct. The answer seems to be that you have to add a rule “ignore requested geometry” and set it to “Force”. So far this seems to be working.

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