From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 09:55:46 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA13296 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:55:46 -0700 Received: from scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA13290 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:55:45 -0700 Received: (from grady@localhost) by scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA25160 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:56:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 09:56:39 -0700 From: Steven Grady Message-Id: <199507031656.JAA25160@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to turn off Num Lock Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ok, so most most people have heard that Athena menus won't come up if Num_Lock is on. The question is, how do you turn it off automatically? Setting led states with "xset led" doesn't work (in only turns my Scroll_Lock on and off), and you can't use xmodmap to turn Num_Lock off as a modifier, because xmodmap wants the key to be released before it will do the change, so it goes into a loop. kbdcontrol doesn't seem to have anything relevant. Is there anything I can do to configure my machine on boot (or in xdm) so that Num_Lock will be turned _off_ by default? (Please respond to the below address, as the machine I'm sending this mail from is not receiving mail at the moment.) Steven steveng@sybase.com