numlock at boot

[Tommy McNeely]

On Oct 1, 2003, at 6:22 PM, Paul Morgan wrote:

> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:36, Paul Morgan wrote:
>> in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: numlock=on|off|bios|last
>> (on at boot, off at boot, per bios, or "the way it was when you shut
>> down")
>>
>> when X starts, gnome or kde or whatever daemon is responsible for
>> setting numlock would:
>> if [ -r ~/.keyboard ]; then
>>   # load this user's preferred layout and numlock
>>   # thus allowing user settings to override global settings
>> fi
>>
>> when X restarts, or vty is respawned, then read global settings from
>> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
>
> Note that the default value should be "off" so as not to change the
> expected behavior for systems without a numlock value. -paul


The default should be BIOS .. laptops generally leave it off in BIOS, 
but a regular desktop will turn it on.. then it works "as it should 
have all long" :)


Tommy

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