That’s basically it, but you should take care of a few other things before doing this. My (much earlier) post describes the procedure I used, and is a fair guide to follow:
Is actually most often the default to your normal graphical session. Or ‘modernly’ anyways.
Use a different F key.
This should not be necessary.
But it could be helpful if you dont have a connection.
I also dont know that you need the double-y or the w instead of just running -Syu.
But if you want to download first, I suppose it wouldnt hurt.
The yy will mostly be a waste of resources for you and the servers.
And I still think that clearing the configs and cache is generally good advice.
Update went relatively smooth following the KDE “set defaults, log out, and update via TTY” advice.
Initial plasma 6 issues discovered:
Desktop icons failed to retain their place on reboot. This is an issue under both Wayland and X11
“KCM => Wifi & Networking => Firewall” (plasma-firewall) is not prompting for credentials, nor displaying proper uwf status/policies in effect like the previous version, and suggests the firewall is disabled. If I try check the box to enable the firewall, it prompts for credentials, passes, and tosses and error Error enabling firewall: An error occurred in command 'setStatus':
2.1. Might this be related to any of the orphan/foreign packages I uninstalled?
2.2. Or is it possible I actually didn’t reboot after resolving the /etc/pam.d/kde.pacnew (if that might be related)?
Issues I worked around by reverting from a Wayland to X11 session…
3.1. Two of the 3 steam/proton games I played regularly on wayland under plasma 5.xx with gamescope failed to launch or launched “empty”/transparent
3.2. Under Plasma 6 / Wayland… removing the gamescope launch options corrected one, but the other failed to launch
3.3 Under Plasma 6 / X11… no issues with these games using gamescope
Dolphin forgot the tabs/folders it had opened… easy enough to reload
Primary Monitor, VRR settings, and resolutions (I have 2 displays) were reset to defaults… easy enough to change back
There were several orphans and one "transitioned to" foreign packages (AUR) that I removed post update/reboot
Maybe (likely) my fault that I installed “the wrong thing” , but now with the update it also wants to update electron22 and electron25 , just downloaded ~40+ GB (just for electron22 ? … which took a while) now compiling the whole thing … I might need to look into why I have installed it (actually just ~ 3 weeks ago).
Option B : Do a fresh clean version 24 install. Wen ISO ?
I’m only responding in the spirit of the wording of the above question, which is that, yes, there are a few issues, but they are simply Plasma bugs — and mostly 15-minute bugs, I would say. Other than that, everything went smoothly, but then again, I update Manjaro the smart way, and I pay attention to allAnnouncements threads — including for the Testing and Unstable branches.
Everything depends on whether these are qt5 or qt6 applications. kvantum was updated to qt6, so if you want continued kvantum support in qt5 applications, then you need to install kvantum-qt5 — it’s an optional dependency of the qt6 version of kvantum now.
Negative. In Plasma 5; those were handled by khotkeys, which was dropped for Plasma 6.
Select — or install, if you don’t have it on your system already — one of the Nerd-flavored fonts, such as Noto Sans Mono Nerd.
Upgrade worked without problems.
mesa 24.0.6-1 compiled without problems with “-D video-codecs=vc1dec,h264dec,h264enc,h265dec,h265enc” entry in PKGBUILD
SoftMaker Office 2024 crashes at launch - able to submit crash log to SoftMaker ← created manjaro support entry for this under Support - Software & Applications
Have to rebuild the following python3.11 libraries one-by-one with pamac build [lib]:
This is by far the most broken, frustrating and ugliest update. Plasma 6 looks like crap, all themes are off, the paddings and layouts are off, my login screen is broken, my splash screen is broken, there is a constant lag and stutter every 20-30 seconds, jesus chrirst.
Plasma hangs frequently. Is unresponsive. No reaction for clicks, even in other gui programs started. However my global shortcut for showing a console works. After a minute it gets back to operational.
Here I clicked a link in firefox and moved a mouse, but it did not recognize my mouseup and interpreted it as drag and drop operation. Then plasma froze.
touko 14 09:16:35 x kwin_x11[1069]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 59650, resource id: 65011927, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 6 (Input)
touko 14 09:16:19 x systemd[965]: Started Firefox Web Browser - Web Browser.
touko 14 09:14:46 x systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully.
touko 14 09:14:46 x PackageKit[10748]: daemon quit
touko 14 09:12:11 x kwin_x11[1069]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 32555, resource id: 60817492, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
touko 14 09:12:11 x kwin_x11[1069]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 32554, resource id: 60817492, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
touko 14 09:12:11 x kwin_x11[1069]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 32539, resource id: 60817492, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
touko 14 09:12:11 x kwin_x11[1069]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 32538, resource id: 60817492, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 3 (Combine)
touko 14 09:12:11 x kwin_x11[1069]: kwin_core: Failed to focus 0x3a00054 (error 3)
