From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 14:55:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F147F16A4CF for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:55:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850BA43D41 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:55:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:55:20 -0500 Message-ID: <41519253.7070908@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:55:15 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Wichmann References: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2004 14:55:21.0187 (UTC) FILETIME=[2EBC5B30:01C4A0B4] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Num lock status on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 14:55:19 -0000 Michael Wichmann wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Just a quick question about this little thing, that bugs me from time to >time:) Num-lock ist turned off by default after I boot up FreeBSD >5.2.1. Is there any way to enable it by default? > >Thanks, >Micha > > > There's a nifty little package in ports called "numlockx" (/usr/ports/x11/numlockx) that worked for me in blackbox/ fluxbox, xfce, and enlightenment, but doesn't seem to work with GNOME, or at least the way I'm calling GNOME now (gdm on ttyv0). I need to get annoyed enough to figure out why, I guess. I just installed it and put "numlockx" in ~/.xinitrc, before the lines starting the window manager ... or much of anything else. Like I said, it worked as long as I was calling "startx"; I guess now that gdm is starting GNOME for me, I need to find another place to call it from... Kevin Kinsey