On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 22:19, ne... wrote: > On Oct 10, 2004 at 04:35, Jeff Vian in a soothing rage wrote: > > >On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 23:21, Harikrishnan M wrote: > >> > How do I setup fedora so that when I log into gnome the numlock will be > >> > on. I have tried the save session settings and it does not seem to save > >> > this option. > >> snip > >If you can tell me of any other key settings that are in the bios of > >most computers I would love to know what ones they are. The bios on all > >boards I have ever used only has the numlock key setting. > >From the console, no X, all you need is something like > the following in /etc/rc.local: > > INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8] > for tty in $INITTY > do > /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < $tty > done > > If you use KDE, this can be set per user via the KDE Control Centre: > > Peripherals -> Keyboard -> Numlock on KDE Startup > > GNOME users are outta luck. > > N.Emile... This works under gnome numlockx-1.0.tar.gz download from http://ourworld.cs.com/kvsmaster/files/numlockx-1.0.tar.gz. Extract in /tmp directory. Run the usual ./configure, make, make install, make clean. Then edit your .bashrc in home dir, and add the line numlockx. Peter
