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Date:      Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:06:09 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: diskless X server using FreeBSD 2.0.5R
Message-ID:  <199512010806.JAA22455@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511301804.MAA02298@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Nov 30, 95 12:04:37 pm

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As Eric L. Hernes wrote:

Just a side-note:

> 1) The num-lock thing stumped me for a day or so.
>    I initially `solved' this by taking the mouse
>    away, because our machine is only going to
>    run one `kterm' and switching focus with the 
>    mouse could be confusing to the users.  I just
>    told the X-server to use an unused pty for the
>    mouse device.  I later figured out that you
>    simply need to turn off num-lock, but not
>    having a mouse was a better solution for our
>    situation.

It's valid to use /dev/null as ``mouse device''. :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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