how to turn numlock on automatically?

Alf829 · 07-29-2003, 08:50 AM

Hi,

Sorry about this silly newbie question, but is there any way of turning on the numlock automatically everytime red hat 9 loads up?

Currently, it's always off when I log in and if I don't remember to press the numlock key, things get a bit messy sometimes.

Regards,
alf829

vladkrack · 07-29-2003, 09:00 AM

Hi,

Add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done

to activate it in X create a file .Xmodmap in your home dir like:
keycode 64 = Meta_L
keycode 0x6D = Multi_key
keycode 79 = 7
keycode 80 = 8
keycode 81 = 9
keycode 83 = 4
keycode 84 = 5
keycode 85 = 6
keycode 87 = 1
keycode 88 = 2
keycode 89 = 3
keycode 90 = 0
keycode 91 = comma
keycode 86 = plus
keycode 77 =

you can check the real keycodes with the command xev