On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 21:22 -0400, taharka wrote: > Kam Leo wrote: > > >On 8/15/05, Marcus Zingmark <blackline@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? Would like > >>it for all users if possible. > >> > > > >Get numlockx-1.0.tar.gz and save it to a local directory. Uncompress > >the files via "tar xvzf numlockx-1.0.tar.gz". Change to the newly > >created numlockx-1.0 directory. Become the superuser, root, (i.e. su > >). Follow the README directions. > > > >An excerpt is presented here: > > > >QUICK INSTALL : > > > >First of all, make sure this package isn't already included in your > > distribution ( e.g. Mandrake includes it ). If you distribution already > > includes NumLockX, use their package instead ( it needn't be necessarily > > called NumLockX, it may be e.g. part of some other package ). > > > >Otherwise, do : > > ./configure > > make > > make install > > make xsetup > > make xinitrc > > > > > >The later steps ( ./configure, make, etc.) are what you need to do. > >That's all there is to it! > >Numlock should start for each user. > > > > > > > AFAIK this will not work!! numlockx only works up to RHL 9. Also, it's > available as an rpm. The Fedora Cores require numlock & the latest > version of Mandrake uses numlock. Are you using numlockx on any of the > Fedora Cores successfully? > lock-keys-applet from extras works well for numlock etc, also very handy if you have a wireless keyboard/
