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2024-03-16
Plasma 6 issues with Manjaro themes & tools
Prepare for a Plasma 6 release (#2) · Issues · Release plan / KDE · GitLab
DKMS fails for v4l2loopback on 6.8 kernel
New version of kvantum does not support QT5 theme
Install new package kvantum-qt5 for QT5 theme support
required for manjaro-settings-manager and audacious
pamac install kvantum-qt5
If Theme shows wrong colors:
cd $HOME; ln -s .profile .xprofile
2024-02-23
gnome-keyring: ssh component is not included
2024-01-25
polkit update might remove your local modified config
With polkit 124-1 there were changes made to etc/pam.d/polkit-1. So check if you made local changes to the file. See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/19bnj0i/todays_update_moved_polkit1_to_polkit1pacsave/kit2v33/
bashrc-manjaro is now merged into bash
Yes, replace bashrc-manjaro with bash
pacman and pacman-contrib changes
pacman-contrib is now split out from pacman. If you have anything installed that depends on pacman-contrib, update with:
sudo pacman -Syu pacman-contrib
2024-01-11
Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
2024-01-09 - Jan Alexander Steffens
We are making
dbus-brokerour default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd.For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of
dbus-daemon, the previous implementation. Pacman will ask you whether to installdbus-broker-unitsordbus-daemon-units. We recommend picking the default.For a more detailed rationale, please see our RFC 25.
– Arch Linux - News: Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
2023-11-10
Nvidia 545 drivers might have issues
Due to various issues including non working backlights on some machines, the NVIDIA 545 series feature branch drivers have been downgraded to the 535 series production branch drivers.
If you are having no issues with the 545 series, there is nothing to do. If you are, you can downgrade to the 535 series with pamac update --enable-downgrade or sudo pacman -Syuu.
So far we know about these issues the Nvidia 545 driver series has:
- Backlight control might not work on certain laptop configurations. Reported also here
- 545 driver: desktop framerate alternates between 120 and 60 FPS
- 545 drivers have bad flickering and black screen issues when VRR is enabled
- 545.29.02 ghosting/artifacting/stuttering on fullscreen when below monitor framerate
- Latest 545 release breaks GPU video decoding in Firefox
If you experience similar or new issues please run sudo usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh and post either in an already given post or create a new one, including your generated nvidia-bug-report.log.gz for Nvidia to fix the issue: Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums
Changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
2023-11-02 - Frederik Schwan
We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21.
To sum it up instead of having JDK and JRE packages coexist in the same system we will be making them conflict. The JDK variant package includes the runtime environment to execute Java applications so if one needs compilation and runtime of Java they need only the JDK package in the future. If, on the other hand, they need just runtime of Java then JRE (or jre-headless) will work.
This will (potentially) require a manual user action during upgrade:
- If you have both JDK and JRE installed you can manually install the JDK with
pacman -Sy jdk-openjdk && pacman -Suand this removes the JRE related packages.- If you have both JRE and JRE-headless you will need to choose one of them and install it manually since they would conflict each other now.
- If you only have one of the JDK/JRE/JRE-headless pacman should resolve dependencies normally and no action is needed.
At the moment this is only valid for the upcoming JDK 21 release.
– Arch Linux - News: Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
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