From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 15:28:31 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 B39D916A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:28:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB6D43D4C for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:28:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (52.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.52]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BB1973; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:29:11 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <4152180C.10303@broadpark.no> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:25:48 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: nb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." References: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> <41519253.7070908@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <41519253.7070908@daleco.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:28:31 -0000 Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > 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 Greetings! Have you tried putting it in... ...*.xsession*? :-D This is equivalent of .xinitrc when starting from xdm as opposed to the startx method. I see no reason why gdm should be radically different. -Henrik W Lund