[technossomy]

This problem is specific to FreeBSD as I understand it. I have done the following to activate the numlock key at startup:
cd /usr/ports/x11/numlockx/
make install clean

However the boot/loader.conf file makes no mention of a numlock key.

When the computer starts up, the numlock key is activated, but as soon as X starts, numlock is being deactivated. How can this be solved: I want the numlock key on when KDE has loaded.

Thanks in advance

[anomie]

You'll need to invoke numlockx when X starts. For example, I use fluxbox - here's my ~/.xinitrc:

numlockx on &
exec fluxbox

[technossomy]

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately that did not work and I still have to manually activate the numlock key. Currently I have this in ~/.xinitrc:

xsetroot -solid "#4a6a8a"

# Force 96 DPI
xrdb -quiet -merge -nocpp <<EOF
Xft.dpi: 96
EOF

numlockx on &
kwin &
dbsd-initialconf && /usr/local/share/desktopbsd/initialconf/finish-cfg.sh

If there is anything you see that is incorrect, please let me know.

[anomie]

For KDE try adding it to ~/.xession. (That's appropriate for xdm; I'm not sure about kdm.)

If no luck, then see this gentoo tip under the "for KDM users" section. The FBSD path may differ slightly.

If still no good, does the numlockx command work when run within a terminal (with X running)?

[technossomy]

Thank you for your response. First of all, there is no file .xsession. I do have .xsession-errors however, which appears to contain some logging data.
If I type numlockx in bash, the following is shown:

# numlockx
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Error opening display!

What approach to take now?

[anomie]

Maybe I wasn't clear enough -- start X, and then run numlockx (not as root) from a terminal. Does that enable your NumLock?

[technossomy]

Yes, that works. Now I suppose I need to enable this in a start up script somewhere? And will this work for the user that is logged in only or for all users who happen to login?

[MikeTbob]

I'm not sure if this applies to BSD or not, but in KDE 3.5 you can go to Control Center>Peripherals>Keyboard>NumLock on KDE start up

[anomie]

Again, I run fluxbox (not KDE), so I can't speak to this definitively, but I would try the suggestions at the gentoo tips page I cited and MikeTbob's suggestion above.

[technossomy]

Thanks, that worked. I will find out someday what script was written to to enable this.