On 6 Feb 2024 00:11 +0100, from h...@adminart.net (hw): > and for almost 30 years we had > to manually switch on NumLock every time we started an X11 session
numlockx has been around since _at least_ 2002, so over 20 years. Depending on your exact definition of "almost 30 years" that leaves a gap of at most a few years. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Activating_numlock_on_bootup&oldid=5154 https://tracker.debian.org/news/509143/accepted-numlockx-10-3-i386-source/ May I humbly suggest that if you're having some issue, it might be more productive if you ask how to solve that issue within the environment you're using (whether GNOME on Wayland or Xfce on X11 or plain virtual terminals at the console or a mix or whatever) than to simply gripe about the issue and when someone suggests a possible solution simply brush it off? Chances are that someone has an entirely workable suggestion, if not an outright solution, which _would_ help; but whether you intend them that way or not, your posts come across as rather condescending or spiteful, which seems to me to likely put people off from even reading them, severely reducing the pool of people who might have an answer to share. -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”
