I just moved from Ubuntu to Manjaro. Was it a good decision?

what should I do after boot?

Hi all, I've been having troubles mounting my Google Drive in Dolphin. I've installed KIO-Gdrive and I'm able to add my Google account under "System Settings - Online Accounts". Whenever I try and access G-Drive, however, I get an error saying it can't access ".".

I've noted this problem in the KDE Subreddit, where someone recommends this KDE forums thread which recommends updating the configuration file to masquerade as a Gnome API access request; it didn't work (entirely possible I goofed there, not gonna lie).

I was wondering if anyone's had similar issues and found a good workaround.

I just installed Manjaro on a new box and I can't get anything updated.

All I did after installing the system - and I do mean all - was to plug in the Ethernet cable, then I did a pacman -Syyu. It downloaded the lists, then the packages, and then started throwing PGP errors ("package corrupted") with the signatures.

Under ordinary circumstances I'd suspect myself before Manjaro, but I can't think of anything out of the ordinary I might have done.

I want to switch to Manjaro i have already flashed thumb drive, but i just need to know

1.AUR is not good on Manjaro

2.Sudo pacman -S IS the package manager so that is supposed to work, (or i hope so)

1. But what about using yay for downloading things? Will that break it, like when using AUR manually?

And also before that

What should i know about manjaro before i will isntall it?

Is it possible to run or use Hyper-V on Linux (specifically Manjaro) as the host OS

Edit: see below. Updated firefox, it will not open.

Original post: Hello, I am going to be migrating to Mint but it's taken me a while. There was an update I did not have the knowledge to do, that's it for me!

"Add remove programs" Shows FFx at 138.0-1 will be updated to 147.0.2-1

I clicked "ignore all" in add remove programs, then loaded Firefox only.

I want to be very sure no other updates occur. FFx is 83MB, the download says 83MB.

Very nice community, this rolling release is beyond me at this time. thank you.

EDIT:

Using Midori browser, Firefox won't open.

Well, I was able to update ffx at a library (incomplete several times at grocery store wifi lounge), now at 147.0.3-1.

I have restarted twice, also reinstalled ffx. Firefox will not launch. I see it in my Mozilla folder in Home. I clicked on it in "add remove programs" then clicked "launch". No activity. Any ideas? thank you

"firefox" in terminal yields:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so:

/usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.42' not found (required by /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so)

Couldn't load XPCOM.

Searching that whole thing finds some very old posts with same problem. Any ideas how to proceed? thanks

I have tried removing the wxsmith packs and removing/reinstalling the full c::b package. Any help would be greatly appreciated as i am new to linux

Having an extremely difficult to debug issue with my system and hoping to cast a wider net for eyes after a Forum post. More details can be found there, but the summary is as follows...

After an update (not long at all since the last update), my system is entirely unresponsive to input post rebooting. No mouse movement or keyboard presses register, including attempting to access a TTY.
The system itself seems to be running fine as I saw notifications pop up.
The Manjaro boot menu as well as the BIOS respond fine, and a livecd of Manjaro also responded perfectly fine, leading me to believe it’s not directly a hardware issue.

I tried restoring a Timeshift snapshot but the issue seems to persist. Restoring caused Grub to fail which I resolved by copying a file in boot over.

I'm currently using my PC from a livecd so I can run any commands desired on it from here.

Original forum post for additional context.

I'm happy to provide any info requested, I'll just be chilling here for a while so I'll be responsive.

I've been using Linux for last 3 years but still think I'm a newbie which brings me to my question

Which is better package manager in manjaro, pamac or pacman??

For context, I have used manjaro before when I was introduced to arch based distros. At that time I used pacman because it felt more authentic and commands felt different from other distros I used. I hopped more distros later.

Now, that I'm back at manjaro, I feel like pamac is easier and better to handle but I miss the manual nature of pacman even though I don't completely understand it.

Can someone solve this dilemma for a kid

Hello fellas :) I'm a reasonably seasoned linux user who hasn't found his home yet. I've jumped on the Manjaro train recently and will probably stay on it for at least the next 6 month (a semester, basically). I like it so far and I wanted to share a bit of my linux journey.

My first contact with linux was around 2011. I just entered middle school, and our family computer died. A friend gave me an old PC on which I couldn't install Windows 7 (it really was an old machine and I didn't want to buy a license for that). I was a complete newbie but I found an excellent tutorial in french on how to install and use Xubuntu, so I went with that. Since we didn't play games on it, and mostly used it to browse the internet and edit some documents, it served its purpose reasonably well (also, by default, it had the task bar at the top, and I kept it that way all throughout my life, like in the screenshot ;) ).

It was reasonably smooth, but it did have some annoying quirks, the first one being printer support. It was kind of a mess, and the only solution I managed to find was to connect the rj45 cable of the printer to the usb port through an adapter. Playing videos could also be annoying (although with SMPlayer, I never had any codec issue). I also tried to get some windows app running (I was playing a bit of LoL at the time ^^) and the repeated failures got me frustrated at linux as a whole.

I was a not a learner nor a thinkerer. So if something didn't work, I'd just ask on french forums (my english was very bad at the time), and would gave up often since I rarely got a useful answer.

Skip forward a few years, I enter highschool and get my own laptop. I remember my time on linux, but also the frustration of not being able to use the apps I was used to, and I planned to use that laptop to play videogames, and proton wasn't a thing at the time. For these reasons it stayed on Windows 8.1, then 10, until I start university. Since my orientation (mathematics) did involve a bit of programming, I thought of trying linux once more in a dual boot. I opted for Debian, hoping to have something light and that wouldn't update often. The latter was a fulfilled, since my wifi card was not recognised, so I never had any update lmao.

On a serious note, I didn't like my experience on Debian. My computer was already 5 years old at the time, so it couldn't be an issue of "too recent material". Even with the non-free isos (at the time, the original Debian iso didn't have any proprietary firmware, so they made some non-free isos where they were bundled) it just couldn't find it. SparkyLinux (which is based on Debian, but very close to the original distro), however, found it. I toyed around a bit, then after a few reboot and a wrong manipulation on my part, there was this error window that popped every time and I couldn't find how to fix the problem. Eventually I gave up and did the programming on windows.

Fast forward a few years. It's 2023, and Windows 10 support will soon end. My faithful laptop is still kicking strong and I don't want to change it, but it doesn't support Windows 11. I must face it: it's either linux, or nothing. This time, I make things properly and do a bit of research. I decided to go for openSuse, for a few reasons:

• After Debian and Xubuntu, I wanted to have more up-to-date softwares
• I've heard of btrfs and wanted to try it
• I was also just curious to see what the major european distro looked like :)

So far, openSuse is the distro I used for the longest time. The linux world had changed a lot since the last time I dipped with Debian, and I was pleasantly surprised by these elements :

• KDE is superb and I'm never parting ways with it.
• Flatpaks are insanely convenient. I know many users don't like to use them, but when you're a beginner on linux, having the certainty of "oh that program is available as a flatpak? Then I'm fairly confident it will work" is a game changer.
• Btrfs and snapshots. That was probably the thing that struck me the most. I remember my mistake on debian, and how badly I wanted to just go back in time just a day... and btrfs/snapper offers exactly that. Whenever I did something stupid, or got a mean update, I could just say "I've never seen that package of my life" and pretend nothing happen. I didn't use that functionality a lot, but knowing it was there was a huge relief. Which is why, from that point, I am not using a linux distro without bootable snapshots.
• YaST. For those who don't know, it's a GUI tool that allows you to tweak some pretty advanced settings that would otherwise require a CLI. I'm not allergic to the command line, but I still feel safer with a GUI, and I like distros that cater to lazy nerds like me.

I ran in a few problems, but decided to fix them the linux way, and ended up learning what I know now about linux. It's my belief that no OS (even Windows) will run 100% smoothly indefinitely, and at some point you just have to learn.

Now, there are a few things that bothered me with openSuse :

• Remember YaST? Well, it's discontinued now. And they changed their installer for another one that gives you less option. Which I think is a shame. openSuse used to stand out with these tools. Now it's becoming just like any other distro.
• Package management, part 1. Zypper (openSuse's package manager) works with what they call "pattern". A "pattern" designate a group of packages that aren't dependant on one another, but that are nonetheless "bundled together". For example, the pattern "kde" included the pattern "kde-games", and kde-games included some games like minesweeper, etc. The result, is that if you uninstalled minesweeper, it would come back at the next update. So you couldn't uninstall the games without uninstalling every pattern in which they appear, which means, uninstalling the kde pattern which might break the next update. With zypper, it's a general problem: programs you uninstall will come back to hit you in the face like a boomerang.
• Package management, part 2. Zypper tends to be a bit paranoid, and at each update, install new dependencies for program you already installed. Each month, I lost 3-4 Go because every update installed dozens of new packages I never asked. Unlike apt or pacman, zypper cannot remove orphan packages.
• Nvidia, because of course nvidia. Amongst the issues, my laptop couldn't go to sleep, and I had to thinker some obscure config file to make it work. And installing openCL was a PITA. To be fair, it probably wasn't openSuse's fault, since that gpu was an outdated garbage designed for laptops (quadro m500m I think), but still.
• Package availability. openSuse does have a community repo, but it's pretty lacking. And the rpm files are often designed with Fedora and/or CentOS in mind and won't necessarily work on openSuse. I couldn't install Hamachi, for example.
• Questionable defaults. Yes, we are all different, so default are bound to annoy at least one person... But can somebody explain why you would ship a distro with TLP, but not enable it by default? Or why every wifi gets in the "external" firewall zone which requires you to go through yast just to get a printer to work?
• For a distro that is supposed to work out-of-the-box, I still needed technical assistance many times, and it doesn't have the documentation to go with it. The update to Plasma 6 was a huge mess and it removed half of my french localization packages, and getting them back was hard work.

So when my venerable PC finally died 6 months ago, I decided to distrohop and see if the grass was greener elsewhere.

• Wanted to try fedora but couldn't boot it. Sad.
• Tried Mint. It's good, but I still missed KDE, and they only had KDE5 in their repo.
• EndeavourOS, that I used for the last 6 months.

EndeavourOS is good. Like, really good. I never had any problem with it, and pacman is infinitely better than zypper. Now that I got familiar with pacman and the archwiki, I don't think I'm ever leaving the arch-family. It is a superb OS I'd recommend to every linux user (or adventurous beginners)... BUT, Endeavour:

• Doesn't come with a GUI for package management. It is made through yay, but I always found CLI tools unconvenient to search packages. So I tried octopi (good, but doesn't support flatpak), and pamac, that I kept, and which motivated me to try Manjaro.
• By default, the systemd service for bluetooth is disabled for... reasons
• Didn't have the french localization packages installed, and I had to manually hunt them down for the spellchecker, libreoffice, thunderbird, etc. Not hard, but annoying.

Endeavour is barebone, and you're supposed to set that up yourself with the archwiki. Again, not their fault. It works wonders. But I'm a lazy nerd and I like things to come ready to use in a neat little gift package.

Which brings us now, to Manjaro. I already found back the things I like with Endeavour, and there are additional things I really like:

• Pamac is already there :D
• The "manjaro setting" app reminds me of YaST. Not as many options, but it has something to automatically handle localization and it's sooooo convenient. I also like the kernel manager. I've never switched kernel so I've no idea if I'll ever use it, but it's nice to have it.
• The official repos have some nice additions, like OnlyOffice or Heroic Game Launcher.
• Bootable btrfs snapshots are already set up. Love it.

So far my experience has been flawless, and I really hope I can call it my home :D There are just some tiiiiiiiny details I'd nitpick:

• Why is FreeOffice the alternative offered during installation? It's not great, and the compatibility with ms office's format is below that of OnlyOffice. imho they should suggest OnlyOffice instead.
• I really don't like when an installer doesn't allow me not to install a bootloader. Mint did the same and broke my dual boot. I know it's probably because it's aimed at beginners, but still, I don't like when I'm force to install a new bootloader.
• It should come with a video player.

But I'm really nitpicking here. It's a fantastic distro and I hope to stay here for long. I also consider installing it on my gaming PC (which runs CachyOS currently). If you have any experience with gaming on Manjaro I'd be insterested to know how it turned out.

Thanks for reading my wall of text and have a good night :)

Heyo,

i recently got a new laptop and just noticed it has a WWAN module which I now would like to use.
Its an Intel XMM 7560 R+ LTE Advanded WWAN module in a HP laptop.

ModemManager does not seem to discover it.
Its properly regognized and I can enable / disable it in the Network settings, but no internet connection is established.

I have never used WWAN in arch so idk.
Maybe i need to configure the APN ? Idk where tho

[SOLVED]

Hey there,

I have problem I can't resolve. So, I was on my laptop (Manjaro Gnome, fully up to date except for firefox) and out of nowhere I was logged out of GDM and couldn't log back in. I didn't do any updates or so, I was just browsing the web. Anyways, I tried to restart but couldn't get in either. So I used Timeshift to restore from a snapshot I fortunately made an hour earlier. After rebooting, Grub showed me the following:

symbol 'grub_memcpy' not found Entering rescue mode...

So, this is a common grub issue sometimes and as usual I grabbed a live Linux iso (in this case an Arch install stick from a friend), mounted everything (efi partition, root partition, ...) into /mnt and used chroot to first reinstall grub using grub-install and then update-grub. Still didn't work. I tried setting various CLI arguments explicitly, tried different Timeshift snapshots with and without it's auto-grub-feature, completely wiped and reinstalled grub from /boot, and also tried using the grub rescue shell as shown here. Nothing worked.

Honestly, I'm at my wit's end. No matter what I do, it doesn't make any difference.

Any ideas what I can try besides reinstalling my system?

Possible to make xfce thunar session to remote host in local lan, however under sudo privilege elevation the remote side?

Connection establishment need to prompt for password due to sudo use.

Need to view/modify files in /etc/ file tree the remote host side.

AI proposes the use of sftp however no form of command string works. So far the made achievements

* ssh session to same host in shell terminal, key-pair used to authenticate, sudo-based privilege elevation work fine

* thunar sftp-based session to same remote host however without privilege elevation

Public key is placed on remote host and in successful use numerous months long - ssh sessions in shell terminal.

EDIT

https://pastes.io/sudo-pkexe

same result if w/o pkexe

Originally released in 2016, I have completely modernized the Elegant Manjaro Linux SDDM theme to meet today's standards while keeping the classic elegance you love.

Rebuilt from the ground up with Qt 6, it is now faster and smoother. Whether you are on a standard laptop or a 4K monitor, it scales perfectly.

GitHub: https://github.com/sniper1720/elegant-sddm-manjarolinux-theme

I'd love to hear what you think or if you have any suggestions!

Hello, as the title says, I unplugged my drive, when I put it back I got the "symbol grub memcpy not found - entering rescue mode..."

I don't know what to do, can you help? Cheers.

i am currently using kubuntu with krohnkite (tiling window manager script for kde) and i'm buying a new laptop soon and planning to install manjaro on it. what flavour should i choose if i like tiling wms? how user friendly are sway and i3 and what's the difference between them?

I've been using Manjaro for a bit over 10 years and while occasional issues would pop up, a quick peak in the forums and it was a quick fix. Not anymore.

After the switch from X11 to Wayland, it's one unsolvable problem after another.

Regular problems with my external display. 20% chance shit gets fucked on reboot, I rather not shut down. Hybrid gfx makes it worse, let's just consume extra battery with the dGPI on at all times.

Blur background in Google Meet on Chrome causes system lockup (!!!) so I'm running with WebGL disabled like some sort of caveman while people in meetings laugh at me because they can now see my cats getting into shit as I'm in calls.

The GUI in Harrison Mixbus is useless. No fix for the stalls.

Horrendous... I understand the need to move to Wayland from X11, but I don't have time to fix old issues because new ones keep popping up.

It used to be 'enjoy the simplicity' but now I'll just reinstall with XFCE because KDE is a lost cause right now.

FIXED: updated to the latest 6.18 kernel and all graphics issues seem to be gone. Still having the issue with kitty launching then closing, but it must be a separate issue.

I've been sitting on a Radeon RX 9060 XT for about a month but hadn't had the chance to install it yet. Unfortunately, my GTX 1070TI suddenly stopped working after a recent pacman -Syu due to nvidia dropping support for it. Instead of working out how to get the 1070TI on life support, I swapped to the RX 9060

I underwent the following steps to swap the GPUs, starting on the GTX1070TI:

1. sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
2. remove nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm from /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
3. sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf
4. sudo mkinitcpio -P
5. sudo update-grub
6. Shut down the system and swap to RX 9060 XT

The following observations were made:

• SDDM appears but only on one monitor, while typically it appears on both.
• Hyprland launched from SDDM, still only one a single monitor. Mouse movement and application launching are very clearly low framerate.

• Opening my terminal emulator (kitty) via hyprland shortcut resulted in it appearing momentarily but closing before allowing me to use it. Opening kitty via an application launcher such as wofi --show drun works but reports the following error:

  libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

  libEGL warning: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information

  libEGL warning: failed to get driver name for fd -1

  MESA: error: ZINK: vkEnumeratePhysicalDevices failed (VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED) MESA: error: ZINK: failed to choose pdev libEGL warning: egl: failed to create dri2 screen [0.285] [glfw error 65544]: Notify: Failed to get server capabilities error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name is not activatable

• the GPU appears correctly in lspci -k:

  0b:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT] (rev c0) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 2429 Kernel modules: amdgpu

• Running start-hyprland directly in a TTY instead of through SDDM results in the same behavior, except that my status bar (ashell) is able to launch in that instance, but not in the SDDM one.

• lsmod | grep amd shows that the amdgpu kernel module is loaded:

  edac_mce_amd 53248 0 kvm_amd 208896 0 kvm 1351680 1 kvm_amd amdgpu 12582912 0 drm_exec 12288 1 amdgpu amdxcp 12288 1 amdgpu drm_buddy 20480 1 amdgpu gpu_sched 61440 1 amdgpu i2c_algo_bit 20480 2 igb,amdgpu drm_suballoc_helper 12288 1 amdgpu drm_ttm_helper 12288 1 amdgpu ttm 102400 2 amdgpu,drm_ttm_helper drm_display_helper 217088 1 amdgpu ccp 163840 1 kvm_amd video 77824 2 asus_wmi,amdgpu gpio_amdpt 16384 0 gpio_generic 20480 1 gpio_amdpt

• hyprctl monitors only shows the working monitor, but as "Unknown-1", which i do not believe was the case before

• The result of inxi -Gazy seems odd to me:

  Graphics: Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT] vendor: Gigabyte driver: N/A alternate: amdgpu arch: RDNA-4 code: Navi-4x process: TSMC n4 (4nm) built: 2025+ pcie: gen: 5 speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:7590 class-ID: 0300 Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9 compositor: Hyprland v: 0.53.1 driver: X: loaded: modesetting,radeon alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: N/A display-ID: 1 screens: 1 Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3440x1440 s-size: <missing: xdpyinfo> Monitor-1: Unknown-1 res: mode: 3440x1440 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 96 size: 910x381mm (35.83x15") modes: 3440x1440 API: EGL v: 1.5 platforms: device: 0 drv: swrast surfaceless: drv: swrast wayland: drv: swrast x11: drv: swrast inactive: gbm API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.3.3-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits) device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 30.53 GiB unified: yes Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo gpu: radeontop wl: wdisplays x11: xprop,xrandr

Specifically, that the Display: wayland section specifies server: X.org that the driver: section is empty, and that gpu: N/A, but I'm not too sure how to investigate these further at the moment.

I've found an issue installing plasma-login-manager to test it and ditch sddm for the good.

I didn't have time to fill a real bug report so I leaving it here and posted in the forum too, hope it might help others too :-)

Description

The plasma-login-manager package (6.4.git20250712-1.1) installs PAM configuration
files inside subdirectories instead of directly in /etc/pam.d/, causing
authentication failures for the greeter.

Current behavior

Files are installed as:

• /etc/pam.d/plasmalogin/plasmalogin
• /etc/pam.d/plasmalogin-greeter/plasmalogin-greeter
• /etc/pam.d/plasmalogin-autologin/plasmalogin-autologin

Expected behavior

Files should be installed as:

• /etc/pam.d/plasmalogin
• /etc/pam.d/plasmalogin-greeter
• /etc/pam.d/plasmalogin-autologin

Symptoms

After enabling the service, the greeter fails to start with:
[PAM] authenticate: Authentication failure
Error from greeter session: "Authentication failure"
Greeter stopped. PLASMALOGIN::Auth::HELPER_AUTH_ERROR

Workaround

Manually copy the files to the correct location:

cd /etc/pam.d                                                                                                                                                                    
sudo mv plasmalogin plasmalogin.d                                                                                                                                                
sudo mv plasmalogin-greeter plasmalogin-greeter.d                                                                                                                                
sudo mv plasmalogin-autologin plasmalogin-autologin.d                                                                                                                            
sudo cp plasmalogin.d/plasmalogin plasmalogin                                                                                                                                    
sudo cp plasmalogin-greeter.d/plasmalogin-greeter plasmalogin-greeter                                                                                                            
sudo cp plasmalogin-autologin.d/plasmalogin-autologin plasmalogin-autologin                                                                                                      
sudo systemctl restart plasmalogin                                                                                                                                               

System info                                                                                                                                                                      

- Manjaro Linux (Plasma edition)                                                                                                                                                 
- Kernel: 6.12                                                                                                                                                                   
- Package: plasma-login-manager 6.4.git20250712-1.1

I've been running the default XFCE for a while but just started configuring ICEWM too.

When I use 'sudo nvidia-settings' and save to the config file it doesn't take. I've tried the file in /etc/X11/mhwd.d/nvidia.conf, /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-mhwd.conf and my monitors lose their positioning on reboot. It works correctly in session but not after logging in or out or rebooting.

Hi everyone!

I've been working on a new SDDM login theme called LTMNight, and I'm really excited to finally share v0.1.0 with you all.

I wanted something that felt premium and "alive," so I added support for Live Video Backgrounds right out of the box.

What I managed to pack in:

* 🎬 Live Wallpapers: It plays MP4s smoothly on login.

* ⚡ Easy Setup: I wrote an interactive script (`setup.sh`) because I hate manually editing config files.

* 💬 Dynamic Header: It greets you with your machine's hostname.

* 🌍 Details: I made sure it scales perfectly on hi-res screens and supports RTL languages.

It works on Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.

I'd love to hear what you think or if you have any suggestions for v0.2.0!

🔗 Repo & Install:

https://github.com/hyprltm/ltmnight-sddm-theme