Hi! I been an Artix user some time on the search for a minimalist experience and a boost on performance so I installed i3 as my window manager and ly as my display manager. I never use any of that two software so didn't know a bunch of things like, how do I activated numlock at the start so i can uses it on ly? so I search a lot on ways to do it since I doesn't found any mention of this feature con the ly github or arch/artix forums. Finally, after a month thinking it's way to difficult for me to find the solution I read a second time the /etc/ly/config.ini file and got surprised by the fact that it was a feature since version 1.1.0, just have to activate changing the part were say
numlock = false
to
numlock = true.
So I'm posting this hoping someone stupid like me who doesn't read the config files will get to the solution more faster :D
And sorry if I typed something wrong or my grammatical isn't right, I'm not native english speaker.
Also there is numlockx in world repo which can activate numlock on X despite specific wm and dm.
I found out today with Windows 11 this requires you change the BIOS or make a registry hack - seriously!
I disable the shift lock because it is just a drag...
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-deactivate-caps-lock/