Num Lock
 

How can i automatically turn the num lock on to use the numeric keyboard without pressing all the times num lock?

Thanx in adv.

Some BIOS have an option to do that

If you use KDE you can set this setting in the control center.

Start control center
click Peripherals | Keyboard | Advanced Tab. Then click the "Turn on" radio button.

What distro, and what window manager do you use?

Cool

man setleds

u can add a command in your startup script (.bash_profile)

are u just in text mode? the setleds command should help u here. not sure how to do this in X. :D

You have to do two seperate things to get NumLock to work: the first for CommandLineInterface and the second for X. Both ways are outlined on my Webpage (click below) . And both ways are independent of which Window Manager/GUI you are using.

HTH

for the console, I put this file in a /etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d file, but you can probably throw it in your /etc/profile like what was said before.

for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
done

I just found this one today on the lfs mailing list for turning on numlock when you start x:

use a text editor to create a file called setnumlock.c that has this in it:

#include <X11/extensions/XTest.h>
#include <X11//keysym.h>

int main(){
Display* disp = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
if (disp == NULL) return 1;
XTestFakeKeyEvent(disp, XKeysymToKeycode(disp, XK_Num_Lock),
True, CurrentTime);
XTestFakeKeyEvent(disp, XKeysymToKeycode(disp, XK_Num_Lock),
False, CurrentTime);
XCloseDisplay(disp);
return 0;
}

Then compile with:
gcc -I/usr/X11R6/include -L/usr/X11R6/lib -o setnumlock setnumlock.c \ -lX11 -lXtst

then you can move the setnumlock executable to any dir in you path (I put it in /usr/X11r6/bin), and place it in you ~/.xinitrc file

I hopt that helps

p.s.- Peebles... I didn't see a link to your web site :-(

adam_boz: It's the "www" button on the bottom of the reply :D

hehe... my bad.

looks good!
(especially the setnumlock method :-)