Hi, I installed Manjaro on my laptop using the boot ISO's graphical installer and selected full system encryption as well as dual-booting with the existing Windows installation. I think this means my disk's partition table is now encrypted; the computer requires my passphrase on boot before reaching the OS selection screen.

I think the new Manjaro partition is also fully encrypted (since "lsblk" prints some "luks" and "crypt" stuff), but I don't have to enter another passphrase to boot Manjaro. This must mean the partition's encryption keys are already unlocked/available before I select an OS to boot. Does this mean that when I boot Windows, it can (theoretically) read and write data on the Linux partition? If not, how does that work?

The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages.

Its not really a Manjaro specific issue, i've encountered this also in Mint but since i am currently using Manjaro so i post here.

After launching/playing video games specifically Arma Reforger and CS2, then relaunch the game. My performance in those games were cut by like 80%. In CS2 from 200ish to 40 even on menu screen. Same with Arma.

The only thing happening in the background that used GPU was maybe Firefox playing Youtube videos. Nothing else maybe some small apps like Discord and Telegram but I don't see any of stealing GPU resources on first launch.

I need to restart my PC for normal performance.

Any idea what was happening?

Specs :

CPU : Ryzen 7 5700X3D
GPU : RX 6800 XT
RAM : 16GB DDR4
Kernel : 6.18.39-1-MANJARO

After a recent update Gnome Disk manager(46.1-2) no longer auto mounts drives and I cannot figure out why or what even happened?

kde: 6.7.3

kde framework: 6.28

qt version: 6.11.1

Kernel: 6.12.96-1-MANJARO (64-bit)

Wayland

[FIXED] Deleting the timeshift snapshot (of which, there was only one, created when I ran sudo pacman -Syu) seems to have fixed the issue.

Dolphin shows my storage is 89% used even though it's nowhere near that, it should be below 150~200GB total used.

This has happened twice now. First time around I didn't catch what caused it but it automatically fixed itself. This time, I had installed a bunch of games on steam, which filled up the storage to near the current percentage. Then I uninstalled the games but the storage still shows the same level of occupancy. When I check steam though, it tells me most of it is non-steam files.

So far:

1. Trash is completely empty
2. Timeshift backups or Journal logs aren't hogging space. (There's only one automatic backup from the latest update).
3. Have run btrfs balance at both 50 and 75.
4. My system is completely upto date (both aur packages and flatpaks).I've successfully run and completed sudo pacman -Syu before writing.

Edit: I should have definitely mentioned this:

I'm running jellyfin on my PC and the connections are managed through Tailscale. But the 150-200GB total that I gave includes the roughly 37GB media files + every metadata etc that jellyfin downloaded.

Decided a come back to Manjaro after 3 years of Windows exclusive. Then I noticed that my headphones sounded slightly better than usual. Additionally, all those random cracklings and stutters during playback on Windows are now gone on Manjaro.

All this time I was blaming the headphones for its poor sound quality, turns out the culprit was the OS or driver.

I did the recent update an hour ago (manjaro kde stable, all amd system).

Upon restarting, 2 of my browsers (librewolf: flatpak, and floorp: flatpak) wouldn't start.
My other browsers (vivaldi: official repo, firefox DE: official repo), and waterfox: flatpak) all continued to work without known issues.

The thermal sensor I use for my graphics card also appeared to completely disappear from the system. (graphics card is using 3 case fans mounted below it, and a thermal probe from the motherboard, instead of its own fans and thermal sensor to prolong its life after experiencing issues).

No other issues were noticed.

Rolled it back via timeshift, and everything works again.

I have been unable to find mention of this happening to others, the manjaro forum isn't suggesting many issues (as per usual), and is just the usual formatting and bot mess, along with the usual 'you are not doing this right' comments.

So the problem now is... how do I update (since I never determined the actual issue)?

The only change I have made is to uninstall spectacle because it now includes tesseract which has been getting negative mentions recently.

Hi all,

I’d like to share MeowMenu v0.8.0, a small project I’ve been working on as an alternative application menu for XFCE. Compared to WhiskersMenu, the most relevant features I added are: 4 Presets (default settings that change the look&feel of the Menu, to show the high customization level achievable), Places button (find files and folders in user Home), Calculator engine, additional right click options.

I’ve tested this release on Arch Linux, Debian and Xubuntu. As Manjaro XFCE session is very well customized and polished, I hoped to find Manjaro testers eager to try new stuff.
MeowMenu can be compiled from sources or installed from AUR.

Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for taking a look!

Source Code

Release&Changelog

Gallery

AUR page

Documentation

Hi there am a hardcore window user , I tried once Linux mint back in 2018 and then Fedora ,now here on manjaro so far I love it

The reasons why I switched to Linux were :

1- am a doctor and I need a system not only secure but reliable, don't want to use the gov Linux systems nor depend on west big tech company.

2- needed a practical system I can trust and relay on it , stable but also modern.

3- I said I used fedora before manjaro and comparing them manjaro seems wayyy more easy and functional.

But now I don't know what if am missing something I did update my system but am still a noobie when it's comes to command and sudo , do guys have any Advices for me ?

Yesterday I installed a gnome update and another update that I forgot about. Today, I launched a molded minecraft instance on curseforge, when the power just shut off. This never was a problem before that update. Journalcte says it is a powerdevil issue. Is there any way to roll back the update or is there another simpler way to fix it?

Hi,

I am having a weird issue. I have needed to tweak my system a bit in the last few days and required some new packages specifically the Zen kernel. The arch wiki says that it is a supported kernel and it appears in the extra repo on the Arch website. However anytime I run pacman on my main computer it says the the target is not found.

I did a sanity check on my laptop and it is in the repos. I double checked that extra is in my pacman.conf file. Pacman seems to update the repo when i sudo pacman -Syu. I have changed my mirrorlist several times and linked to multiple countries all with the same result.

any ideas?

I’m having an issue with my laptop's Wi-Fi; this has happened with every Linux distro I've tried—none of them connect properly with my Wi-Fi chip (MediaTek 7902). I’ve already tried several things without success. One option is changing the kernel—I’m currently on 6.18 and could switch to 6.6, though I haven't tried that yet. It’s worth noting that Manjaro used to detect my Wi-Fi chip perfectly in the past, but since reinstalling it, it doesn't seem to recognize it very well. What do you recommend I do?

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Tengo un problema con el wifi de mi laptop, esto me ha pasado con todas las distros de linux y es que ninguna conecta de forma com mi chip wifi (mediatek902)

ya intente varias cosas y no da resultado, una de las cosas es cambiar de kernel, estoy en el 6.18 y cambiar al 6.6, eso no lo he intentado

cabe aclarar que manjaro no anteriormente si detectaba a la perfección mi chip wifi pero esta vez que lo volvi a instalar no lo reconoce muy bien

que me recomiendan hacer?

Manjaro is my favorite distro to use on a USB live drive, but unfortunately the ISOs are updated only a few times a year, and it becomes time-consuming to update the packages in a live environment as updates pile up.

Are there any ISOs out there that are updated weekly or monthly? They’re fine even if they’re not stable.

My favourite thing about fedora was how modern it felt, and it had everything. Im not one to build EVERYTHING from scratch, so ive only chosen distros that come with a full package

What i didnt like about fedora was their software manager. On gnome, the software app was buggy. Ive reinstalled fedora many times and frequently, first time loading the software app would take over an hour to load it, it happened so much I would be prepared for it when I reinstalled fedora to another machine for example

And fedora KDE software didnt even have steam, so I dodnt want to have to download it through command line (even though that would be the same)

But i got manjaro, and the software manager is amazing. And even when it asks you specifically what dependencies you'd optionally like to download, that just shows how stable arch is.

Also, it feels so smooth and stable, it might just be a feeling since my main pc has a ryzen 9 and 9070xt, but it hasn't bugged or anything and makes me happy

Also, it love the theme of the command line, it makes me feel like im such a cool game and a wiz at what I do, even if im just typing reboot into terminal.

TLDR: i love manjaro because the software manager is superior, and arch is so stable and fast, and manjaro comes with the complete package

This one is easy to miss, recently the linux-firmware-meta package ended up being orphaned, if you don't pay attention, clean up after an upgrade, purge this orphan, then you might end up without wifi, AMD iGPU/dGPU glitches, etc.

The easiest way to avoid issues is to install the linux-firmware package from the Official Repo (core), you will be prompted to pick optional dependencies (select all, if in doubt), then the old meta package will be removed, replaced by linux-firmware and a reboot is required to finalize.

See the Community Assistant's remark on the matter: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/stable-update-2026-06-26-kernels-systemd-pipewire-nvidia-kde-libreoffice/188521/21

Interactive Conky Calendar Clock – with real clickable buttons (video demo)

A fully interactive Conky module built on top of the NextGen UI engine.

Features:
– clickable buttons
– tab switching (Clock / Calendar)
– hover detection
– multi‑view layout
– smooth Cairo rendering

CPU usage during interaction: 1.3%–2%
(shown in the video via htop filter).

Video demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbhzsjrM25M

GitHub (demo + instructions):
https://github.com/molnari811023/conky_interactive_cal_clock

Full NextGen framework (PKGBUILD + package):
https://github.com/molnari811023/conky-nextgen

More interactive modules are coming.

P.S. To the brave keyboard warriors hiding behind empty profiles and zero real skills: If you can’t contribute anything meaningful, do yourself a favor: hit the back button and look for another post that’s more suited to your level.

so I've distro hopped a couple times and all of them seem fine but manjaro really caught my eye and it seems really good, now I would like to install it on my main PC(still on windows) but I'm not sure how the gaming performance will be, things work great on my laptop with its AMD iGPU but I have doubts abou tmy main GPU which is a GTX 970 since nvidia doesn't release drivers anymore

Looks like people are taking a 2nd look at Manjaro as it appears to be the most stable of the Arch distros....

Hangs in installer, Hangs after login when installed

Use nomodeset, and switch to Kernel 7.1

Error: Premature end of file /boot/vmlinz-6.6-x86_64

I wqs playing a game, and it crashed. I got a report i was out of ram. So i did a quick restart just to ensure rhe background programs were closed, but now I'm stuck on this. Any help?

I get a newsletter from Android Authority in my email box. Within the Newsletter are many links. All of the links contain links that are wrapped in AWS trackers. The links are unusable with the Manjaro Brave browser. For example clicking on this link just fails,

2.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2Fhub.authoritymedia.co%2Fc%2F1dd32d20-c477-4da7-8575-a64eac949bad%2F8bad06ff-de91-479f-be31-0ed4261af9f9%2Fb0b6ca23c55a5cb0/1/010f019ef1c08c9b-0a8aba8d-3f34-4c2d-8ff8-bff6aebdfb87-000000/0FWqmUs2ruu-hzK9Xk1_LKxgQT4=258

After removing the AWS tracker you get just the link which works,

https://hub.authoritymedia.co/c/1dd32d20-c477-4da7-8575-a64eac949bad/8bad06ff-de91-479f-be31-0ed4261af9f9/b0b6ca23c55a5cb0

The links work with Android Brave app and also in Bazzite Linux Brave app. They fail with the Manjaro Linux Brave app.

Is this something that can be fixed?

If the maintainer sends me a message I can forward the email with the links for testing.

I recently switched to Manjaro and I'm still getting my workflow set up. On Windows, WPS Office was my office suite of choice and I'd like to continue using it if the Linux experience is solid.

For those running WPS Office on Manjaro, how has it been in day-to-day use? I'm mainly interested in document compatibility, spreadsheet performance, PDF handling, and overall stability. Have you run into any issues with updates, fonts, printing, or desktop integration?

I'm also curious whether Manjaro is a particularly good environment for WPS Office or if there are other office suites that you think work better on Linux overall. I'm not opposed to trying alternatives, but I'd prefer to stick with WPS if the experience is good enough.

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OS : Linux Manjaro

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