kevin.kempter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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?
I suspect that you are replying to the wrong part of this thread. The OP
& myself are running Gnome. This thread started on Mon Aug 15.
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
