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Fedora 28: Enable NumLock on Login

I lost my primary drive on Friday, and I’m having to rebuild a bunch of stuff. I didn’t document minor things like this before, so I am this time around. Hopefully someone else finds this useful. numlockx There are plenty of different ways to enable NumLock on login, including a decent manual approach. An official X extension, numlockx, can handle it automatically for us. There’s an unofficial mirror available to build the package from source, or you can check for it in official channels.

wxPython

Installing wxPython 4.0 (Project Phoenix) on Fedora 27

I’ve stayed away from wxPython in the past because updates were slow and Python 3 wasn’t supported. Within the last couple of weeks, 4.0 was completed, which at least answers the Python 3 problem. I’ve been pounding my head against X11 idiosyncracies all weekend, so I thought I’d take a break and try it out. Dependencies It looks like the prequisites were sourced from Debian. $ sudo dnf install -y {dpkg,freeglut,gstreamer{,1}-plugins-ba{se,d-free},gtk3,lib{jpeg,notify,SM,tiff},python{2,3},SDL}{,-devel} @development-tools

CLI

Patched Powerline fonts via urxvt

I’m a huge fan of the patched Powerline fonts. Those extra icons add a ton of useful information. $ cd $ git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git $ cd fonts $ ./install.sh $ cd