[Unstable Update] March 2024 Edition

That did it, thanks! :grin:

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I remember reading a post somewhere that Manjaro Settings needs to be updated for Plasma 6 but I canโ€™t find it now.

Known issues. Please see:

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Yes, just figured this today. :stuck_out_tongue:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159915

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For SDDM / KDE users

If you want to update today, you will see a black screen after reboot :wink:

This only happens in the Manjaro unstable branch, other Arch distros are not affected.

SDDM failed ...

As llvm-libs does not match the current version of mesa

Failed to initialize graphics backend for OpenGL.
Process 1066 (sddm-greeter-qt) of user 963 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 1066:
#0  0x0000774c106ab32c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x9132c)
#1  0x0000774c1065a6c8 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x406c8)
#2  0x0000774c106424b8 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x284b8)
#3  0x0000774c10c8a924 n/a (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x8a924)
#4  0x0000774c10c8b135 _ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x8b135)
#5  0x0000774c1232c459 n/a (libQt6Quick.so.6 + 0x12c459)
#6  0x0000774c124a49b2 n/a (libQt6Quick.so.6 + 0x2a49b2)
#7  0x0000774c124a7041 n/a (libQt6Quick.so.6 + 0x2a7041)
#8  0x0000774c113d3599 _ZN7QWindow5eventEP6QEvent (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x1d3599)
#9  0x0000774c10d39818 _ZN16QCoreApplication15notifyInternal2EP7QObjectP6QEvent (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x139818)
#10 0x0000774c1137dda9 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate18processExposeEventEPN29QWindowSystemInterfacePrivate11ExposeEventE (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x17dda9)
#11 0x0000774c113da85c _ZN22QWindowSystemInterface22sendWindowSystemEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt6Gui.so.6 + 0x1da85c)
#12 0x0000774c0c5afbdf n/a (libQt6XcbQpa.so.6 + 0x4cbdf)
#13 0x0000774c0fbcaf69 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x59f69)
#14 0x0000774c0fc293a7 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb83a7)
#15 0x0000774c0fbc9162 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x58162)
#16 0x0000774c10f739c4 _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x3739c4)
#17 0x0000774c10d43d6e _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x143d6e)
#18 0x0000774c10d3c2b8 _ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv (libQt6Core.so.6 + 0x13c2b8)
#19 0x000062f0b055a9da n/a (sddm-greeter-qt6 + 0x139da)
#20 0x0000774c10643cd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x29cd0)
#21 0x0000774c10643d8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x29d8a)
#22 0x000062f0b055d445 n/a (sddm-greeter-qt6 + 0x16445)

Just use TTY to downgrade llvm-libs. And wait for a new version of mesa.

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Shouldnโ€™t be the case anymore as @Yochanan pushed the rebuild mesa packages. If repos synced it will be delivered to you :wink:

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plasma-systemmonitor 6.0.1 has empty charts, Iโ€™m not sure but may be because of kquickcharts 6.0.0

These both work fine for me. Maybe just you

Intel iGPU ?

No, AMD iGPU

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Running manjaro gnome, getting the white screen telling me to contact my system administrator on boot after installing the llvm 17.0.6-2 packages.

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When you see llvm packages, donโ€™t update, as mostly rebuilds are needed โ€ฆ Arch Linux - Todo: LLVM 17

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Mine has gone relatively smoothly. Osu stable is broken, because apparently the update moved me over to Wayland by default instead of X11. The fullscreen application launcher for Plasma has โ€œbrokenโ€ in that you cannot type the application name you want and press enter anymore, for whatever absurd reason.

Other than that, smooth sailing so far. I was expecting worse.

Hi,

Find my point of view and report, the up date transition between plasma 5 and plasma 6

Congratulations to the dev ! The transition is working well, Enjoy !

hola

Plasma 5 before Plasma 6 up date

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12
Kernel Version: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 ร— Intelยฎ Celeronยฎ J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz
Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intelยฎ UHD Graphics 600

[nls@ody ~]$ date -u
jeu. 07 mars 2024 08:58:32 UTC
[nls@ody ~]$ neofetch
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ nls@ody
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ -------
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Host: ODYSSEY-X86J4125
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Kernel: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Uptime: 49 secs
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Packages: 1302 (pacman)
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Shell: bash 5.2.26
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Resolution: 1920x1080
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ DE: Plasma 5.27.10
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ WM: kwin
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ WM Theme: plastik
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Icons: oxygen [Plasma], oxygen [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel Celeron J4105 (4) @ 2.500GHz
GPU: Intel GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600]
Memory: 1057MiB / 7778MiB

[nls@ody ~]$ uname -a
Linux ody 6.6.19-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Mar 1 18:16:16 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[nls@ody ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
[sudo] password for nls:
:: Synchronizing package databasesโ€ฆ
core 152,1 KiB 814 KiB/s 00:00 [######################################################] 100%
extra 8,7 MiB 24,2 MiB/s 00:00 [######################################################] 100%
multilib 143,6 KiB 876 KiB/s 00:00 [######################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgradeโ€ฆ
:: Replace baloo5 with extra/baloo? [Y/n] y
:: Replace ksysguard with extra/plasma-systemmonitor? [Y/n] y
:: Replace kuserfeedback5 with extra/kuserfeedback? [Y/n] y
:: Replace plasma-wayland-session with extra/plasma-workspace? [Y/n] y
resolving dependenciesโ€ฆ
looking for conflicting packagesโ€ฆ
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: phonon-qt6-vlc will be installed before its phonon-qt6 dependency
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xdg-desktop-portal-kde will be installed before its plasma-workspace dependency

Plasma 6 after the Plasma 5 up date

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 ร— Intelยฎ Celeronยฎ J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz
Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intelยฎ UHD Graphics 600

[nls@ody ~]$ neofetch
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ nls@ody
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ -------
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Host: ODYSSEY-X86J4125
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Kernel: 6.6.19-1-MANJARO
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Uptime: 10 mins
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Packages: 1399 (pacman)
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Shell: bash 5.2.26
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Resolution: 1920x1080
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ DE: Plasma 6.0.1
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ WM: kwin
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ WM Theme: plastik
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆ Icons: oxygen [Plasma], oxygen [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel Celeron J4105 (4) @ 2.500GHz
GPU: Intel GeminiLake [UHD Graphics 600]
Memory: 1485MiB / 7778MiB

[nls@ody ~]$

I like :
_ Switch button to set the DE
_ New icon taskbar
_ Distance between the taskbar and the icon is now better

I dislike :
_ my taskbar is on the top screen, canโ€™t access to the settings by doing enter edit modeโ€ฆ
see below the screenshot, the settings windows are superimpose
_ ksysguard no more present with plasma 6, replace with system monitor
_ on reboot no more mouse cursor, the mouse cursor is back by playing with the system settings

Donโ€™t forget the plasma 6 schedule up date, next plasma 6 up date the 12 of March.

https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_6

Just updated my QEMU Plasma Minimal to Plasma 6. It went smoothly. I canโ€™t test on hardware yet, still waiting for a computer to become free. But everything seems to work fine. The only issue I noted is the Host seems to be using more RAM, although the Client isnโ€™t, so that would be QEMU itself.

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Only 2 things I noticed after update to plasma 6.
It defaulted to Wayland. I boot to X11.
I use variety for my wallpaper changer. I had to change the settings for where it was getting wallpapers from and change it to slideshow and set the time interval the wallpaper changes.

Btw this one works fine too: ttf-cascadia-code-nerd
And looks extremely well imho.

Somehow llvm and clang (and non-freeโ€™s mesa) updates got to Testing, I updated them, aaaaaand this is how I learned to stop worrying and loved the Plasma 6. A couple (3-4 actually) of not working widgets I can tolerate. What I donโ€™t quite understand though is why kup widget is looking weird (anyone having the same?) and input method panel migrated to the system tray and became less handy to use than it was when it could be configured to accomodate 2 or more icons in a row on a panel.
And thatโ€™s basically are all my โ€œcomplaintsโ€ so far. The rest like Octopi having basic Qt6 looks etc is so minor compared to the major version bump we witnessed that it doesnโ€™t worth mentioning, really.

Updated to Plasma 6 on bare metal. (Intel CPU + Intel iGPU/Nvidia GPU), all working smoothly, but there were a couple quirks (250% scaling yay).

As mentioned by the Manjaro team, most gui/themes specific to Manjaro do not work:

  • SDDM theme breaks entirely
  • Greeter does not show up in the settings
  • Breath plasma look and feel/Color scheme do work!
  • Manjaro KCM do not show in settings, but work fine as standalone

There are couple issues with SDDM for me:

  • On X proper cursor does not show up (defaulting to KDE Classic)
  • On X HiDPI scaling did not work (even that Iโ€™ve had -dpi X11 setting set by KDE "Use Plasma Settings button) EDIT: For some reason I had hidpi set to false in /etc/sddm.conf (but it should not be the default)
  • On Wayland (with kwin as compositor), you need to set proper scaling with a variable (this was not the case with plasma 5/SDDM 0.20), but the cursor is still small

Here is sddm config generated by KDE:

[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=plasma
User=

[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
Numlock=on
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot

[Theme]
Current=breeze
CursorSize=
CursorTheme=Breeze_Light
Font=Noto Sans,10,-1,0,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1

[Users]
MaximumUid=60000
MinimumUid=1000

[X11]
ServerArguments=-dpi 240

Note that CursorSize is empty EDIT: Manually re-setting it in settings readded it to the config, but it did not solve the issue

Here is my wayland config:

[General]
DisplayServer=wayland
GreeterEnvironment=QT_WAYLAND_SHELL_INTEGRATION=layer-shell,QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2.5

[Wayland]
CompositorCommand=kwin_wayland --drm --no-lockscreen --no-global-shortcuts --locale1

KDE Quirks

  • After updating my cursor theme was not set at all (invisible cursor), after enabling it in settings itโ€™s fine. Note, that I used Light Breeze cursor theme before which still exists on Plasma 6
  • Some Kwin effects got disabled (like the one that conditionally changes opacity of the windows)
  • Some widgets had to be readded (stock weather widget being an example)

Aside from that everything else seems to be working fine I will do some more testing and edit this post if necessary.

So far so good, no timeshift needed so far

Some issues (nothing critical)
Manjaro-System-Monitor is lost
SDDM is completely broken
breath theme needed a bit of readjustment (basically remove all personalizations)

thatโ€™s all so far, iโ€™ll keep testing it

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It shows here.
I must wonder if

  • A is the cursor theme available, and not in HOME ?
  • B has the โ€˜apply plasma settingsโ€™ been clicked in the sddm kcm ?
  • C check the config file /etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf as seen below
[Autologin]
Relogin=false
Session=
User=

[General]
HaltCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff
RebootCommand=/usr/bin/systemctl reboot

[Theme]
Current=breeze
CursorSize=
CursorTheme=Colloid-cscs
Font=Noto Sans,10,-1,0,400,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1

[Users]
MaximumUid=60000
MinimumUid=1000

[X11]
ServerArguments=-dpi 144

Oh I see you got it. But Iโ€™ll leave this with the outline because you arent the only one to say something like that.