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Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 02:36:40 +0100
From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Num Lock goes off when entering X session
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On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 07:15:49 +0800, Ben Woods wrote:
> This previous post should help you:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-September/058977.html
> 
> In summary, install the numlockx package and put "numlockx" in ~/.xinitrc,
> before the lines starting the window manager.

Works very good. Thanks! Problem solved. Interesting to see
that this problem (or let's say systematic inconvenience)
has been kept in X for more than 10 years now, without the
ability of a native solution... :-)


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...