[Stable Update] 2025-03-30 - Kernels, GNOME 48, Mesa, Plymouth, LibreOffice

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Now that you mention it, yes. My idle usage on KDE Wayland used to be around 300-400MB, now it’s at least twice that amount. This could be a problem for me because sometimes I want to run local LLMs which need ~95% of VRAM. Which was never a problem previously but will be if the desktop is claiming that much VRAM.

These issues

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/12686

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/12775

were fixed in Mesa 25.0.2 so I don’t know if this is related.

I guess the first step to investigate this would be to downgrade Mesa to 24.3.4 and see if the same happens there. Will try that when I have time.

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Well after further testing I guess my memory was wrong. Mesa 24.3.4 does seem to use a little less VRAM but the difference isn’t that great. And you can easily test as it was a few months ago by booting manjaro-kde-24.2.1-241216-linux612.iso which has Mesa 24.2.8 + Plasma 6.2.4 (logout from the default X11 session, login to a Wayland one, and install amdgpu_top). VRAM usage is similar.

Certain apps (Thunderbird and Firefox in particular) do want a lot of VRAM. Firefox I can understand but why does Thunderbird want more VRAM than a full browser?!? Easily fixed though, go to Settings → General in Thunderbird, scroll down to bottom, and turn off hardware acceleration. I don’t need my email rendering to be hardware accelerated and now it uses 0 MB VRAM :slight_smile:

Most other apps that I usually have open (Dolphin, Kate, Konsole) use negligible amounts of VRAM. Even Code OSS, which is is an Electron app, uses less than half the VRAM Thunderbird wants for hardware acceleration. So without Thunderbird hogging it I’m at ~97% free VRAM with Firefox open, or ~96% free with Firefox + Code OSS, which is fine.

I’m not sure why your plasmashell VRAM is that high, mine is around 200. One thing I have noticed is that when plasmashell uses VRAM it doesn’t release it afterwards (e.g. the first time you open Application Launcher it grabs 30-40 MB). Probably it’s caching things for performance but that will cause it’s usage to keep going up the longer you go without restarting.

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Thanks for the updates! One thing I had to do manually: I removed python-pytooling. I don’t know where it came from and what depended on it, but I do have a few packages from AUR. By now nothing depends on it, but pamac wanted to update it from AUR (even if it doesn’t seem to be provided from there?). But I didn’t try and uninstalled it. Maybe there is someone who would like know about this, if not please don’t bother.

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I think I am getting the same thing. Only happens to multi monitor setups. To fix it fast, click on a different monitor/desktop and the freeze will go away.

Note KDE Stable and Wayland.

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Download of firefox (137.0-1) started                                                                                                                                                                              
1,5 GB/2,9 GB About 2 minutes remainingzsh: terminated  pamac update

The installation seemed to be continuing in the background as I saw post-hooks being triggered, but I didn’t see any update happening in the terminal anymore.

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Since the update I’m having some issues with the lockscreen of my system (KDE). After the system locks itself due to inactivity it takes really long (~15-20 seconds) for the password prompt to come up when pressing a button.
It used to be that I move my mouse, the screen turned on and I could input the password to unlock. Now the screen turns on, all I see is the background image for several seconds until the password prompt shows up. Sometimes it shows up in a normal way, other times it does this little shaking animation with the “unlocking failed” like it does when entering a wrong password. All in all it is quite annoying - is there a known solution for this?

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I confirm both of these issues, also the pamac one has been going on since like 2 updates now at least.

I also had a problem on the 6.12 kernel with a Wine game, on exit the desktop seemed unresponsive, then after a second a notification appeared like “KDE graphics effects were restarted due to a crash”. I switched to 6.14 and don’t see this again but we’ll see Ig.

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I know the next stable is about to arrive but going to drop this question here anyway.

Since this stable update some programs running through Wine/Proton have been getting empty context in drop down menu’s or the drop down menu instantly closing when clicked.

It looks similar to the following KDE bug that is fixed in 6.3.4: 501357 – Options from dropdowns in "Configure special app/window settings..." window are not readable
On KDE’s Reddit someone mentioned this was due the interaction of QT with 6.3.3.

Could this also be responsible for the drop down menu’s and it’s context missing with programs running through Wine/Proton?

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Currently Hyprland and Xwayland is broken. This leads in applications needing an XServer ( like steam ) not starting.

Its already patched upstream on the hyprland repo. Cant verify if the patch is already in testing. Unstable should have it already in it.

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Nope, same thing happens. I had a whole desktop hang in this way once, sudo systemctl restart display-manager didn’t help either as I got a error message that “plasma can’t be started”. They obviously broke smth again.

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Just out of curiosity, have you used Winetricks to install Corefonts? Try that and see if it fixes your issue.

Edit: It must be done for the prefix your app is in.

If you are using it through Steam, you might need Protontricks instead.

Easiest plan usually is to install GloriousEggroll as it has all this built in:

One more edit: If you are unfamiliar with how to use GE with Steam, create the following directory:

~/.steam/steam/compatibilitytools.d/

Drop the GE folder in it. Restart Steam and now GE will be an option in steam under the Compatibility tab.

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Hi,

Please find a link to the Manjaro branch compare tool

https://manjaristas.org/branch_compare?q=Hyprland

https://manjaristas.org/branch_compare?q=Xwayland

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For context, it is an interface issue not a font issue.
Interface issue is similar to the KDE issue tracker I linked regarding Window Rules drop down menu’s showing empty selections and ac suspect being a QT update.

The Wine/Proton application is Vortex mod manager, v1.4.5.
Installed three years ago, runs through Lutris. Corefonts is installed. Prefix has not changed recently, was running GE 9-9 no issues up to recently. Tested GE 9-25 and Experimental, same interface issue

Got a secondary Vortex install, latest v14.x, six months old as test.
Runs in it’s own prefix, set to Proton Experimental (needed to get it installed/running for dot.net). It also has the same interface issue in the exact same parts of the interface.

I do not think this is a Wine/Proton issue, but something KDE, Kwin, Wayland or QT related.

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