Tim: >>> What's more annoying is when you turn it on, then go to another >>> window and that application acts as if it's off. >>> 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? taharka >> 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 ;-) Any that'd fix the annoyance. ;-) So I might try that one. kevin: > are you running Gnome or KDE ? I'm running Gnome, with Red Hat 9.0, and Fedora Core 3 and 4 Linux on different systems. Judging by the new problems I have with 4, I won't be changing over from 3 for a while. I may end up moving over to something it's radically redesigned every few months just for the sake of it. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.