On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:28, taharka wrote: > Tim wrote: > >Marcus Zingmark said: > >>>>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? > >>>>Would like it for all users if possible. > > > >Henry Hartley wrote: > >>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. > > > >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. > > > >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. > > 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 ;-) > > taharka > > Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A. 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?
