Numlock as standard?

[David Niemi]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:22 -0400, taharka wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
> 
> >On 8/15/05, Marcus Zingmark <blackline at bodymodification.se> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? Would like
> >>it for all users if possible.
> >>
> >
> >Get numlockx-1.0.tar.gz and save it to a local directory.  Uncompress
> >the files via "tar xvzf numlockx-1.0.tar.gz".  Change to the newly
> >created numlockx-1.0 directory.  Become the superuser, root, (i.e. su
> >).   Follow the README directions.
> >
> >An excerpt is presented here:
> >
> >QUICK INSTALL :
> >
> >First of all, make sure this package isn't already included in your
> > distribution ( e.g. Mandrake includes it ). If you distribution already
> >  includes NumLockX, use their package instead ( it needn't be necessarily
> >  called NumLockX, it may be e.g. part of some other package ).
> >
> >Otherwise, do :
> >  ./configure
> >  make
> >  make install
> >  make xsetup
> >  make xinitrc
> >
> >
> >The later steps ( ./configure, make, etc.) are what you need to do. 
> >That's all there is to it!
> >Numlock should start for each user.
> >
> >  
> >
> AFAIK this will not work!! numlockx only works up to RHL 9. Also, it's 
> available as an rpm. The Fedora Cores require numlock & the latest 
> version of Mandrake uses numlock. Are you using numlockx on any of the 
> Fedora Cores successfully?
> 

lock-keys-applet from extras works well for numlock etc, also very handy
if you have a wireless keyboard/