Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:55:15 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Michael Wichmann <michaelwichmann@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Num lock status on boot Message-ID: <41519253.7070908@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> References: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net>
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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
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