num locks

[heartsmagic]

How can i automatically be numlocks ON on startup....

[Dolda2000]

Alas, that is a question that has perplexed many. I have wondered myself, but I didn't consider it important enough to dive into something for it. It is definitely possible, but I do not know how, and I believe it has been asked before on this forum.
Do you really want me to check it out for you? I could do that, 'cause I'd like to know myself, and if someone else wants to know as well, I might actually do it.

[aherm]

On SuSE YAST it is on System -> sysconfig Editor -> Hardware -> Keyboard:
e.g. kbd_capslock, kbd_delay, kbd_rate, kbd_numlock, etc.

On KDE 3.1.1 I think you can run Control Center -> Regional & Accessibility -> Keyboard. If not just go to your sysconfig and edit manually ;-)


Have a lot of fun :-)

[heartsmagic]

thanks for help tries..

but i want a script for this not from menus..if u know u make me happy..

[Dolda2000]

If this is a terminal mode program, you could write a C program that calls the kernel ioctls to turn off numlock. See console_ioctls(4) for more info on that.
I'm not sure how to do it in X, though. I should really learn more about X programming.

[heartsmagic]

from
# man setleds

INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done

it works for console ok.but for X?

[yowwww]

in KDE --- preferences, peripherals, keyboard, advanced, click on enable numlock on boot

[heartsmagic]

i use gnome and i dont want to do this from panel..

thx

[yowwww]

oh, too bad about gnome :o

[heartsmagic]

i ll seek for this.if i find i ll explan here..
thx