numlock keys (was wishlist for FC2

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2004-01-14 23:23, Scott Talbot whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:48, T. Ribbrock wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:28:14PM +0100, Bjorn Andersen wrote:
>>[...]
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>>>3) Num Lock was not turned on.
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>>Hm... Maybe this could be solved by nicking Mandrake's "numlockd"? I
>>know that on all my Mandrake boxes numlock is explicitly set on out of
>>the box for both console and X mode.
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>	I thought there must be a way to do this so I google Grouped Numlock
>and found a thread describing the setleds program.  A quick man setleds
>describes the script file needed to accomplish this, then just add it to
>the appropriate initd.rc
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>Scott
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I tried this out and it indeed set numlock on all the <alt><ctl>F[1-6] 
tty consoles.  However, there is no obvious way to make it work on the 
Konsole terms in KDE. 

Of course, every time I boot the  machine (which isn't usually very 
often) all I have to do is hit the stupid key once and I'm done with it 
for the X console, and setleds takes care of keeping it on if I switch 
(rarely) to a tty.

It's not a big deal, just one of those little bothers.

-- 
Fritz Whittington
... "Bother," said Pooh, as the internet crashed, again
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