After updating Plasma to 5.21 I have weird issues with font rendering in some elemts in sytem settings. Note the “Close” button. It only happens with some sytem fonts
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Also, the sub-pixel rendering is always reverted to “rgb” after openning the font configuration dialog in system settings.
Hm, seems that the dkms modules are only installed for Kernel 5.4 do you have tried mkinitcpio -p linux511?
Kernel Headers installed?
linux511-headers
Yup, many elements of UI suffer from this. Open Audio settings → Configure, for example. I got it looking OK only when using Noto or Plex fonts.
I edited my post, rebuilding vmware fixed the issue
Getting crashes in XFCE:s NetworkManager (nm-connection-editor) as soon as I try to edit Wi-Fi connections (Ethernet and VPN:s can be edited). Running nm-connection-editor directly from the terminal and trying to edit a Wi-Fi connection results in:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
This might be related:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ManjaroLinux/comments/ltbdoi/cannot_edit_network_connections/
Cant reproduce on my end. Two computers, both XFCE, Kernel 5.4
After trying the latest kernel 5.11 today and checking that everything was fine, meaning there’s no commit in the latest kernel that causes problem with power management, I decided to delete the files downloaded in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ to re-download them, and updated again to 5.10.18 with latest nvidia module and utils. So far it’s working, no GPU powered on all the time.
Either this power management problem is very specific and intermittent or the package downloaded was problematic which doesn’t make sense due to checksum or another package is/was causing the problem when updated together with the kernel, since I updated all but the kernel and nvidia, then installed them separately, maybe that made it work. Weird problem.
As for the iwd issue, it’s caused by latest update of networkmanager, not sure what’s wrong, apparently iwd service conflicts with the NetworkManager service (wpa service is disabled), but if I disable iwd service it starts by itself, I guess it’s pulled by NetworkManager.
I downgraded NetworkManager to 1dev+16+gdaad4e2fee-1, everything is working again.
I noticed the same cosmetic problems other described above, and more.
My screen brightness is stuck at the lowest (I can use brightness keys and the widget slider to adjust the brightness value, but the actual brightness doesn’t change). I tried adding i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=0 to boot parameters, without success.
Also, sound is not working when using Google Meet (it says microphone not available), and I had an error message saying an input method was invalid. I tried using older kernels (going back to 5.4 and trying 5.11 hoping it would solve it), but the problems persist. Fcitx configuration cannot open, saying “cannot connect Fcitx by DBus”, and trying to launch it in console gives the following: (ERROR-32669 ime.c:432) fcitx-keyboard-cm-mmuock already exists (ERROR-32669 xim.c:239) Start XIM error. Another XIM daemon named ibus is running? (ERROR-32669 instance.c:443) Exiting.
I used manjaro for 1 year, but I am new to this forum, please tell me if this should be posted somewhere else.
I just want to say thank you, I have a desktop and two laptops running the latest KDE and a chromebook with the latest XFCE and so far, all good. Thanks for your work.
For setting brightness I recommend using the “Light” package (in official repos). I’ve used it on a few laptops without any issues. You can use it manually or make a simple one-shot service with systemd to set your brightness to a predefined value on boot.
For me the brightness used to be set to maximum on each boot and systemd-backlight service couldn’t properly save and restore brightness. However I could use the slider (in XFCE) to set the brightness. So your mileage might vary.
