Numlock as standard?

[taharka]

kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com wrote:

>On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:28, taharka wrote:
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>>Tim wrote:
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>>>Marcus Zingmark said:
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>>>>>>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4?
>>>>>>Would like it for all users if possible.
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>>>Henry Hartley wrote:
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>>>>You could just turn it on in the BIOS.  Oh, wait, that doesn't
>>>>work.  I still don't understand why Linux cannot simply abide
>>>>by the BIOS setting and leave numlock alone.  Even Windows 95
>>>>got that right.
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>>>Yes, I find that annoying too.  What's more annoying is when you turn it
>>>on, then go to another window and that application acts as if it's off.
>>>Even if Linux paid attention to the initial setting by the BIOS, it
>>>wouldn't help (for that reason).  Nearly every application you try and
>>>type in requires you to toggle the numlock two or more times to get it
>>>working again.
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>>>Does anyone using that extra utility program (which wasn't mentioned in
>>>the message that I'm replying to) know whether it overcomes this
>>>particular annoyance?  I'm always loathe to install things just to try
>>>out something.
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>>Which "extra utility program" are you referring to? There have been
>>three mentioned in this thread (numlock, numlockx & lock-keys-applet).
>>Having said that, I can speak for numlock
>>(numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm) on fc3 which the OP was interested in.
>>The answer is yes, it does overcome that particular annoyance ;-)
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>>taharka
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>>Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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>are you running Gnome or KDE ?
>If you run KDE you can go to  the KDE control panel,
>then go to Peripherals --> Keyboard
>and select Turn ON, Turn OFF, or Leave Unchanged for the numlock options.
>Note I believe this only applies to the user upon login?
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I suspect that you are replying to the wrong part of this thread. The OP 
& myself are running Gnome. This thread started on Mon Aug 15.

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.