num lock

[vidd]

NE1 know how to get the NUM lock to automagikly come on during boot?
Its only a minor annoyance but it IS annoying

[borromini]

What desktop environment do you use? You can set it in KDE's control center, never checked for Gnome though.

[vidd]

Sorry...i use gnome on Ubuntu
And I would like it to come on BEFORE login, as my password contains #'s

[dark_lord_kodd]

I seem to remember there is a kernel option for it.

Like you, i find this annoying, but in the long run, a custom kernel is more annoying. Maybe there is a script / command that will do it that can run at login?

[spoon!]

numlockx (apt-get install numlockx) will turn on the Num Lock when X loads. I don't know if it comes on before login though.

[valan]

for tty in /dev/tty[1-6]; do
    /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < $tty
done

This should be in one of the boot scripts. This will turn numlock on for the first 6 virtual consoles. If you have more or less, you will want to change that.

See link for more info and how to do it when starting X too.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint...es/numlock.txt

[borromini]

NumlockX - as its name says - only provides a numlock-on functionality within X. So not within virtual terminals (tty2, ...). When your login manager appears, and numlockx is configured right, you'll have an activated numlock. I know KDE has that functionality built-in, which makes me suppose Gnome does also. Not sure though.

[xaosIncorporeal]

for tty in /dev/tty[1-6]; do
    /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < $tty
done

the above script may start at 0.
it needs to be run as root as /dev/tty? will deny permission for regular user (or maybe it's just me).

too bad Linux doesn't respect bios settings for this.

because kde settings panel is not being respected I had to write an init.d script.

#!/bin/sh
## 
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          setled
# Required-Start:     
# Required-Stop:     
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
### END INIT INFO
#  update-rc.d setled.sh defaults 99 99
### 

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=""
NAME=setled
DESC="turns numberlock on and off"

setleds -D +num < /dev/tty0

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo -n "Starting $DESC: $NAME"
      setleds -D +num < /dev/tty0
    echo "."
    ;;
  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping $DESC: $NAME"
      setleds -D -num < /dev/tty0
    echo "."
    ;;
  force-reload|restart)
    echo -n "Restarting $DESC: $NAME"   
    setleds -D +num < /dev/tty0
    ;;
  *)
    echo "hey it just don't matter setting num lock on"
      setleds -D +num < /dev/tty0
    exit 0
    ;;
esac

exit 0

as root save to /etc/init.d/setled (or whatever name) (for gnu/Debians anyway)
type
chmod +x /etc/init.d/setled
update-rc.d setled defaults 99 99
(the 99 means that there's not much chance of another script turning the numlock off)

For those who prefer numlock off just switch the pluses and minuses.

rewrite the script for cap lock and scroll lock (whatever that does- my scroll lock led doesn't even light)