I’m playing the new Factorio Space Age game, and so far I like it. One thing that has bothered me though is that it is not as smooth on Manjaro as it was on OpenSuSE. So I went looking for tweaks to fix things, and even get to a point where gamemode doesn’t work (cannot adjust CPU speed), and that may be due to a missing BIOS upgrade. Wow, talk about going down the rabbit hole.
Previously, I would install an OS, then mount my second hard drive as /home, and reboot. With this process, all the software I install later is pre-configured: they already have their config files in place from the previous OS.
One of the changes I made was to switch from legacy BIOS mode to UEFI BIOS mode. So I thought that a complete fresh installation of Manjaro was the best chance for success.
I did install some software prior to mounting my second hard drive as /home.
Things went pretty well, except for one thing: Manjaro uses Z shell (Zsh) instead of bash. Man, Zsh broke a lot of the terminal I use (Konsole).
When I tried to uninstall Z shell in the package manager, it barked at me with “removing zsh breaks dependency 'zsh' required by manjaro-zsh-config“
Okay, I uninstalled manjaro-zsh-config first.
Then trying to uninstall Z shell barks at me with “removing zsh breaks dependency 'zsh' required by manjaro-kde-settings“. Sigh. This will likely get rid of more than I’d like it to, but here I go….
Although I have successfully uninstalled Z shell, my terminal key bindings are still all fucked up. The <home> key doesn’t take me to the beginning of the line; the <end> key doesn’t take me to the end of the line. Sometimes the <end> key inserts a tilde (the ~ key).
Logged in as root, this sets me back to (a) default:
cat > /etc/inputrc << "EOF"
# Begin /etc/inputrc
# Make sure we don't output everything on the 1 line
set horizontal-scroll-mode Off
# Enable 8bit input
set meta-flag On
set input-meta On
# Turns off 8th bit stripping
set convert-meta Off
# Keep the 8th bit for display
set output-meta On
# none, visible or audible
set bell-style none
# All of the following map the escape sequence of the
# value contained inside the 1st argument to the
# readline specific functions
"\eOd": backward-word
"\eOc": forward-word
# for linux console
"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
# End /etc/inputrc
EOF
Bad news is, I’m still getting nothing for the <home> key, and a tilde for the <end> key.
And I cannot tell why. Clearly, something other than /etc/inputrc and ~./bashrc are at play here.
I did get switched to Wayland, instead of X11. Factorio does seem smoother now. That is what I really wanted.
A web page, scrolling quickly (Firefox on Amazon), did spontaneously crash to reboot. Oof, that’s bad. Thankfully, I didn’t have anything else running which suffers from catastrophic failure of a spontaneous reboot.