I am sorry if this should be posted on manjaro forum, but I can't register there, I saw something about they were having problems with registration, and I should send an e-mail to register, but then I got a response that my e-mail was blocked due to "not meet our delivery requirements" and I can't for the life of me find where I first saw the instruction to send an email to register
Anyway I wanted to install manjaro with kde, saw this post saying that it is possible:
viewtopic.php?t=367491
hoping this distro will finally help me solve the problem of not need 2 keyboard and mouse for my main pc and my pi using deskflow
just a side note: another distro that I tried that was suported by deskflow that I could install was kali linux, but I was having issues using it because beeing a security driven distro I couldn't save any password, and that annoyed the hell out of me puting the same password over and over again, and when I google some solution I saw something on the line of " this shouldn't be your daily drive, it was striped down of some stuff so people wouldn't do it" then I said ok, back to manjaro.....but afterwords I saw that this is some kind of meme.....so does anyone have any thoughts on that? should I continue with kali and disregard the meme and have some configuration that I missed? or should I press on with manjaro, a more noob distro?
so I search on google went to this website: https://manjaro.org/products/download/arm downloaded the image and tried to install on my ssd using pi imager custom .img then I learned that config.txt must have a line that disable the check if the distro is compatible with pi, weird, but ok, easy enough........black screen
then I discovered that the image on the site was no good and I should use this script https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/ ... -installer, but I think this only works for SD cards, and I have an ssd on my pi, when I booted i got something like couldn't find FAT partition or something like that, unfortunately I don't have capture card to print this error
then I don't even remember where I got another image: Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-rpi4-20240513.img.xz installed via pi imager, and apparent success, I could boot, BUT anytime the mouse stooped it disappeared and had a lot of issues with it, moving when I tried to click something, showing wierd black squares around it....and I saw this is a common issue, I should just update manjaro, but I couldn't had a lot of dependency issues, I am suspicious that the version I downloaded was experimental one, found this site: https://github.com/manjaro-arm/rpi4-images/releases with a gazilion versions, all of them with "pre-release" so it didn't inspired me much confidence that they were stable, and they don't match the numeration scheme on the post of a successful manjaro install previously linked
Sorry for the long post, but I don't know what to do anymore, so I ask of you kind stranger: what is the best way to install manjaro on the pi 5 with ssd? is it the script? what should I change on it to create the correct partitions on my ssd? or I just shouldn't have chosen file system ext4, I should have chosen btrfs or f2fs? is there a better way to install? which image should I download so I can use on the pi imager? or better still: is there a better way to use my pi as a server and my windows pc as a client for me to use 1 keyboard and 1 mouse, that it is not barrier, input leap, deskflow or sinergy (which are all basically the same thing)?????
Anyway I wanted to install manjaro with kde, saw this post saying that it is possible:
viewtopic.php?t=367491
hoping this distro will finally help me solve the problem of not need 2 keyboard and mouse for my main pc and my pi using deskflow
just a side note: another distro that I tried that was suported by deskflow that I could install was kali linux, but I was having issues using it because beeing a security driven distro I couldn't save any password, and that annoyed the hell out of me puting the same password over and over again, and when I google some solution I saw something on the line of " this shouldn't be your daily drive, it was striped down of some stuff so people wouldn't do it" then I said ok, back to manjaro.....but afterwords I saw that this is some kind of meme.....so does anyone have any thoughts on that? should I continue with kali and disregard the meme and have some configuration that I missed? or should I press on with manjaro, a more noob distro?
so I search on google went to this website: https://manjaro.org/products/download/arm downloaded the image and tried to install on my ssd using pi imager custom .img then I learned that config.txt must have a line that disable the check if the distro is compatible with pi, weird, but ok, easy enough........black screen
then I discovered that the image on the site was no good and I should use this script https://gitlab.manjaro.org/manjaro-arm/ ... -installer, but I think this only works for SD cards, and I have an ssd on my pi, when I booted i got something like couldn't find FAT partition or something like that, unfortunately I don't have capture card to print this error
then I don't even remember where I got another image: Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-rpi4-20240513.img.xz installed via pi imager, and apparent success, I could boot, BUT anytime the mouse stooped it disappeared and had a lot of issues with it, moving when I tried to click something, showing wierd black squares around it....and I saw this is a common issue, I should just update manjaro, but I couldn't had a lot of dependency issues, I am suspicious that the version I downloaded was experimental one, found this site: https://github.com/manjaro-arm/rpi4-images/releases with a gazilion versions, all of them with "pre-release" so it didn't inspired me much confidence that they were stable, and they don't match the numeration scheme on the post of a successful manjaro install previously linked
Sorry for the long post, but I don't know what to do anymore, so I ask of you kind stranger: what is the best way to install manjaro on the pi 5 with ssd? is it the script? what should I change on it to create the correct partitions on my ssd? or I just shouldn't have chosen file system ext4, I should have chosen btrfs or f2fs? is there a better way to install? which image should I download so I can use on the pi imager? or better still: is there a better way to use my pi as a server and my windows pc as a client for me to use 1 keyboard and 1 mouse, that it is not barrier, input leap, deskflow or sinergy (which are all basically the same thing)?????
Statistics: Posted by spinal86 — Wed Oct 01, 2025 1:41 am