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numlock on boot...

i'm running fc2, & when i boot, numlock is on, but after i login it turns off... can i change that??

Hi!

Look under preferences >> control center >> keyboard settings..there it is ;)

Boby

in prefs > control center, there is keyboard & keyboard shortcuts

keyboard shortcuts is just for all the extra keys & stuff

keyboard has tabs at the top saying "keyboard" "typing break" "layouts" & "layout options"
& i can't find anything about numlock in any of those....

If you are using Gnome you may need to compile a small C program, called setnumlock, that can turn numlock on for you. Download this ftp://ftp.silug.org/pub/ltsp/setnumlock.tar.gz and untar it then cd into it, compile and install it, change the permissions so ordinary users can use it and then get gnome to run it every time you log in

Code:

tar xzf setnumlock.tar.gz

cd setnumlock

make

su

password

make install

chmod 755 /usr/bin/setnumlock

exit

gnome-session-properties

Click the Startup Programs tab then click Add+, enter setnumlock into the box and click OK

awesome... you rock... i'll give that a sheot tomorrwow