From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 1 00:27:40 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA10824 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:27:40 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA10410 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 00:26:27 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA09645; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:26:07 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA25436; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:26:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA22455; Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:06:10 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512010806.JAA22455@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: diskless X server using FreeBSD 2.0.5R To: erich@lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 09:06:09 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199511301804.MAA02298@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Nov 30, 95 12:04:37 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 729 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)