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| Hey all, While we're injecting more life into .geek, can anyone tell me how I can force numlock on when I start my X session? I'm (currently) using KDE v1.x, but I'd rather it be a generic X solution... Thanks, - jsproat (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Numlock in KDE / Gnome?
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| (...) I have trouble believing this, but as far as I can tell (and I asked several people who know more than I) there is no good way, short of patching the code. Apparently, the numlock key acts as a modifier in X, and it might somehow confuse some (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Numlock in KDE / Gnome?
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| (...) missed the first message about this, but 'setleds' seems like it would do the trick. try adding '/usr/bin/setleds -D +num' to your x startup script. or am i .. missing a deeper question that was in the original message? :) (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Numlock in KDE / Gnome?
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| (...) Doesn't work in X. setleds is for virtual terminals. (24 years ago, 22-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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