[Stable Update] 2026-05-02 - Kernels, Plasma, GNOME, Mesa, Systemd,

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Another Manjaro stable branch update :heart:

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All good except some minor errors downloading from one repository/mirror. After several times trying, finally succeeded.

A little heads-up for those who still didn’t update and be prepared: the webkit2gtk package, in my case, compiled everything from source (8000+ files) and took 5 hours or longer, I had to leave it running overnight.

Regards.

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I used add/remove programs to uninstall it from my computers before updating. It seems that it has zero dependencies and looks to have been deprecated.

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I use stremio and it uses webkit2gtk.
Only for that I use the flatpak version of stremio to avoid hours of building time.

What is for you the package that uses the webkit2gtk as dependency.

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Not seeing that…

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Oh maybe I mistaken. Maybe stremio did use it in the past, installing from aur started to take long maybe 2 month or a bit longer ago.

I remember webkit2gtk in an application that tooook loonggg to build (hours)…

With stremio right now it is qtwebengine that takes long to download, but thats another thing.

Retrieving sources...
  -> Downloading qtwebengine-5.15.19-lts.tgz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time   Current
                                 Dload  Upload  Total   Spent   Left   Speed
  0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0                              0
100  3.60M 100  3.60M   0      0  3.98M      0                              0
  -> Downloading qtwebengine-chromium-87-based-20250423.tgz...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed  Time    Time    Time   Current
                                 Dload  Upload  Total   Spent   Left   Speed
  0      0   0      0   0      0      0      0                              0
100 388.9M   0 388.9M   0      0  2.34M      0           02:45          4.02M^C

==> ERROR: TERM signal caught. Exiting...
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  • Have one machine with BambuStudio on it, which depends on webkit2gtk, but dep failed build. Was able to remove it from the other two machines.
  • Two of three machines are missing some system font. The old << and >> left and right Mabox sidepanel menu icons (and volume icon) appear as unknown unicode glyphs like ࿩. On the third machine, everything displays correctly.

Edit: on one machine which did not render properly, it had ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-common and ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols. Solution was as described below: mb-reset tint2. The top tint2 bar flashed as it was reloaded, then presto, problem solved.

The last PC was not as lucky. It also has the correct fonts, but mb-reset tint2 did not fix that one. Investigating…

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  • I’m not sure about the webkit2gtk package, but it’s possible that it used to be required for yad. (Currently, yad uses webkit2gtk‑4.1, which is in the repo.)
  • As for Nerd Fonts in the menu and other places… everything should work without any user intervention. The icon‑fonts currently in use come from the package: ttf‑nerd-fonts-symbols or ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols-mono.

Edit:
You can copy new tint2 panel configs to your home directory by:

mb-reset tint2
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