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Scilly.Suffolk

TIL that Scroll Lock doesn't work in Linux, which would explain why the keyboard I pulled out of a skip doesn't light-up, although is otherwise functional.

I found this and this and have got the backlight working, but I'm struggling to make the change permanent/auto on boot.

Creating .Xmodmap in my home directory (and clearing the cache) didn't work and I can only open /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb read-only.

Any idiot-proof suggestions?

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Stonehedge in reply to @Scilly.Suffolk

I can only offer an idiot suggestion I'm afraid. A proper bodge.

Why not create a shell script that contains the command to make the backlight change, make the file executable (chmod 755?) And then set it to run @reboot in cron?

Toe curlingly ineligant but it'd probably work.

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Scilly.Suffolk in reply to @Stonehedge

Thanks, but I only understood the first and last paragraphs. :)

What I enjoy about Linux (compared to Windows) is that, for the most part, it "just works" and I have never needed to get my hands dirty.

So I can blindly copy/paste into the terminal, but beyond that...

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