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Re: Numlock in KDE / Gnome?
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Thu, 22 Jun 2000 05:25:38 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
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 old programs if it's on.

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?  :)

--
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much,
and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so
much power.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)



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  Re: Numlock in KDE / Gnome?
 
(...) 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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(...) 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)

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