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Did you try it? or see the title of the SE post is "Turn NumLock on on startup?"

Discostu , maybe try:

From: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/708662

Package free:

Open root crontab sudo crontab -e

Add
@reboot sh -c 'setleds +num < /dev/console'

on a new line.

Some users may need to run:
sudo systemctl enable cron.service

Then reboot and see it in action.

This also didn't help. I meanwhile noticed that this has nothing to do with booting. Also when I am switching users, Numlock is off/overruled.


Which specifically didn't help?

Also, did you try



Make sure you have numlockx installed
sudo apt-get install numlockx

Edit the file /etc ...

Danathar wrote: Tue Apr 15, 2025 6:50 am

Michael-IDA wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:43 pm PS: Windows 11 Pro Cd Key Retail Microsoft Global can be had for $10. So, don't let friends buy retail

Somehow…I doubt that $10 key legal…

It is, I've owned one for a year and an half. Search on the full phrase I listed, you'll find it.

Rizlaw ,

blkid is also a useful tool, it shows the current (UUIDs and LABELs) to (/nvme and /dev/sdX) mappings.

As an aside, the order my drives are listed in my fstab don't match the /nvme or /dev/sdX order at any particular boot.

Personally I use UUIDs, as {supposedly} different drives ...

It's a little sad because there will be a LOT of PC's headed for the scrap heap after this fall due to Windows 11 incompatibility and these are perfectly good systems with Linux on them.


You can installing MX (or any Linux) on the old comp's and then installing Win11 in a VM to save these PCs ...

b. the home usb would be a single source of data w/out needing complex sync'ing, and thus easy to backup itself elsewhere.



One method that is very close to what it sounds like your after is to create a regular home when installing, and then symlink all of the home data folders you want some ...

home for multiple LTS mx versions (mx21, mx23) on multiple computers.


This is highly not recommended with Xfce. The MX dev's repeatedly have said the Xfce config files differ based upon version. You could do this with TDE, but that causes other issues (things like sudo).


utilize a usb drive ...

m_pav wrote: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:57 pm Smartctl is not going to work well with most NVME type drives. It will read some of the older units, but not the newer ones.

Thank you Mike!

I've been looking for this for awhile, just never got around to digging for it.

Thanks again,
Michael

CharlesV's link is more complete, but the copy command they use probably won't copy . files correctly (or at all). Use the Thunar steps from rokytnji.1's link for that. Personally I use tar for this step, which has the benefit of making you a nice backup file.

Very stripped down version:


#!/bin ...