On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 09:17 +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote: > 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.
NumLock has been around well before 2002. > > 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? Nobody has yet suggested a solution to how to change keyboard layouts when using wayland. > 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. It's not unusual that people don't like to hear the truth.
