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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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frankenbike in reply to @Scilly.Suffolk

I can only open /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb read-only

Have you tried this as superuser?

Try sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gb or whatever your editor of choice is

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Scilly.Suffolk in reply to @frankenbike

That does work, yes! Thank you.

But how do I save and exit? "^X" = exit but how do I enter that? I can't even summon help, because that's "^G".

Does "^" represent shift or control or alt or something?
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NotThamesWater in reply to @frankenbike

or whatever your editor of choice is

Or emacs if you hate yourself

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