dvorak, reverse scrolling, change mouse cursor, and installing icecat
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dvorak, reverse scrolling, change mouse cursor, and installing icecat
How do I permanently get fluxbox to open with dvorak keyboard layout? I have edited xorg.conf according to the archlinux.org guide, but it doesn't work.
How do I get system wide reverse/"natural" scrolling? I have tried the guide on libinput, but it didn't work.
How do I install icecat? This seems to be an issue of using AUR. But when I'm installing via git, makepkg -si stalls at, "s|http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla...IceCat/Help|g;' '{}' ';'" I mean, it dosen't lock up the system I can ctrl+C kill it.
And my mouse cursor is huge. Like it's the kiddie linux cursor set. How do I change this?
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Originally Posted by hedron
How do I install icecat? This seems to be an issue of using AUR. But when I'm installing via git, makepkg -si stalls at, "s|http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla...IceCat/Help|g;' '{}' ';'" I mean, it dosen't lock up the system I can ctrl+C kill it.
Hello hedron,
What steps are you using to install icecat ? AUR packages are usually installed :
- download snapshot
- extract contents of snapshot (which includes PKGBUILD)
- run makepkg from directory where PKGBUILD was extracted. To automatically install as well, use the -i option (which you seem to have)
... is this what you are doing ?
Also, the AUR comments on icecat mention issues in the latest PKGBUILD. Have you taken a look at these and applied any required changes ?
I just used the icecat-bin and that installed fine. Not the latest version, but it works.
Although, now the keyboard mapping seems to have mysteriously failed again. I literally changed nothing, and now it won't work. And the xorg.conf mouse config doesn't work either, but a hackish editing of .Xmodmap fixed it. But getting back to the dvorak layout, it has always worked in TTY, I have no understanding why X just doesn't use that setting as the default? Why even have an xorg.conf if X just ignores everything in it?
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