Numlock as standard?

[taharka]

Marcus Zingmark wrote:

> taharka skrev:
>
>> Marcus Zingmark wrote:
>>
>>> How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? Would 
>>> like it for all users if possible.
>>>
>>> /// Marcus
>>>
>> If using Gnome, the following works for fc3 :-)
>>
>> GNOME Tips
>> Numlock
>>
>> Some users like to have the numlock turned on automatically, 
>> something that I don't think GNOME currently does. The solution is to 
>> install a tiny binary that turns on the numlock for you, and have 
>> GNOME run that at startup.
>>
>> You can install the numlock binary by downloading and installing the 
>> following rpm:
>> numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm
>>
>> If you have configured yum to use my YJL Packages repository, you can 
>> just (as root) run:
>>
>> yum install numlock
>>
>> Once numlock is installed, go to the Applications menu, select the 
>> Preferences menu, select the More Preferences menu, and finally the 
>> Sessions menu option.
>>
>> Select the Startup Items tab, and click on the Add button. You should 
>> get a window like this:
>>
>> [Add Startup Program]
>>
>> Enter /usr/bin/numlock into the Startup Command field. You don't 
>> really need to change the order, the default of 50 is fine. Click the 
>> OK button, and you are done. Next time you log into GNOME it will 
>> turn on the numlock for you.
>>
>> taharka
>>
>> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>>
> Oooh, this looks terrific. Follow up question then:
>
> How do I set up a startingprogram for all users? This guide only tells 
> me how to start this program for each user...
>
Have a read here; http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/numlock.html the 
following paragraph ;-)

Because I use XDM, I just compiled
the program, and then modified /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to run the program,
so numlock is on by default for everyone.

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.