battled with this one a while ago. i now use a program called numlockx - do a google on that and you'll find it (or do a search within your distro). add numlockx to start from gnome-session-properties and it will always be on when you log in. Takis On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 23:45 -0500, Bob Barrett wrote: > First, a comment about responses to requests for help. I know that the > contributors are volunteers, and that they are busy people, but the list > exists to help users with problems. The suggestion is often that the > user try to find the solution before they ask. Where? Beyond the > basics, the online help is frequently little help. How does one find > help on the Gnome web site? Www.gnome.org lists across the top of the > page: About Gnome - Download - Users - Art & Themes - Developers - > Foudation - Contact. Where's the help? Where's the documentation? > Where's the FAQ? I have looked and looked. > > Enough of that. > > My subject line is "Numlock". This is the most useless key on a PC > keyboard. I have never used any other type of keyboard. I don't > suppose that many unix OS or application programmers have a number > crunching background. Anyone who has used various calculators for > engineering or accounting, etc. would much rather use the keypad than > the numbers above the alphabet. The only other use is as cursor keys, > and the PC keyboard has those more conveniently located. The numlock > key should always be on. > > I have been using Slackware and Debian flavors of Linux and it took some > digging to find out how to have numlock turned on always. I have added > the proper command to rc.local. It works great for the console, but > doesn't do a thing for Gnome. I have looked and looked, but cannot find > where this can be configured. I have tried xset, but "xset led on" > turns on the third led only (scroll lock) as does "xset led 3". The man > page implies that the number for the numlock key could anything from 1 > to 32. I have tried them all. > I have set "Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" " in XF86Config and xorg.conf and > tried xset led in xinitrc. Nothing works. > > Maybe I'm just dumb, but I can't be the only one who wants to do this. > > I would appreciate any help. > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > -- Takis Diakoumis <takisd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
