Marcus Zingmark wrote:
taharka skrev:
Marcus Zingmark wrote:
taharka skrev:
Marcus Zingmark wrote:
How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? Would
like it for all users if possible.
/// Marcus
If using Gnome, the following works for fc3 :-)
GNOME Tips
Numlock
Some users like to have the numlock turned on automatically,
something that I don't think GNOME currently does. The solution is
to install a tiny binary that turns on the numlock for you, and
have GNOME run that at startup.
You can install the numlock binary by downloading and installing
the following rpm:
numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm
If you have configured yum to use my YJL Packages repository, you
can just (as root) run:
yum install numlock
Once numlock is installed, go to the Applications menu, select the
Preferences menu, select the More Preferences menu, and finally the
Sessions menu option.
Select the Startup Items tab, and click on the Add button. You
should get a window like this:
[Add Startup Program]
Enter /usr/bin/numlock into the Startup Command field. You don't
really need to change the order, the default of 50 is fine. Click
the OK button, and you are done. Next time you log into GNOME it
will turn on the numlock for you.
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
Oooh, this looks terrific. Follow up question then:
How do I set up a startingprogram for all users? This guide only
tells me how to start this program for each user...
Have a read here; http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Hardware/numlock.html the
following paragraph ;-)
Because I use XDM, I just compiled
the program, and then modified /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 to run the program,
so numlock is on by default for everyone.
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
Ok, just so I get this right, beacuse this is really out of my league,
after installing numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm I should enter:
//numlock.c
//compile using:
//gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o setnumlock Numlock.c
-lX11 -lXtst
#include <X11/extensions/XTest.h>
#include <X11/keysym.h>
int main(void) {
Display* disp = XOpenDisplay( NULL );
if( disp == NULL )
return 1;
XTestFakeKeyEvent( disp, XKeysymToKeycode( disp, XK_Num_Lock), True,
CurrentTime );
XTestFakeKeyEvent( disp, XKeysymToKeycode( disp, XK_Num_Lock), False,
CurrentTime );
XCloseDisplay( disp );
return 0;
}
//end numlock.c
into /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 - then everyone will have Numlock activated
at startup?
The reason I'm double-checking is that I'm not sure I could fix things
back if I do wrong :p
/// Marcus
If you installed the rpm, you only need to add a line to
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 that reads,
#if [ -x /usr/bin/numlock ]
#then
# Turn on Num Lock key
#/usr/bin/numlock
#fi
Unfortunately, this does not work. Any particular reason for not setting
this up for each individual user, as this method does work?
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
