On Friday 19 April 04:01, craigw wrote: > On Fri Apr 19, 2002 at 02:23:49AM -0400, Robert_L wrote: <snip> > > I like and use gdm (kdm just won't work for some reason) but some things > > about kdm I miss. > > 1. Auto entry of selected user > > yes, that's a nice convenience. With gdm you can (if it's a one-user > computer, and you really want to... ) have it log you in automatically.
Yep, finally settled for that with a delay. Since its a one man machine in a lcoked apartment I'm not worried about security with respect to this. > > > 2. Focus on password field > > I thought that was the default. If you're having to click before you can > start typing, I don't know how to fix it. > > > 3. numlock on (how the heck do you do this for the gdm login screen ?) > > don't know. I've never turned numlock on. In fact, I'm still using the > keyboard that came with my 486 and if it ever dies I'll probably buy a > happy hacker keyboard. Yeah, every time I buy a new box, the keyboard > goes straight in the closet on top of the pile of other fancy keyboards > with all their fancy window keys & internet buttons & whatnots. You must be a meticulous guy. I go through a new one every 6 months. > I think maybe you can turn numlock on in your XF86Config > > you can also put all this in ~/.Xmodmap: > > keycode 90 = KP_0 KP_Insert > keycode 87 = KP_1 KP_End > keycode 88 = KP_2 KP_Down > keycode 89 = KP_3 KP_Next > keycode 83 = KP_4 KP_Left > keycode 84 = KP_5 KP_Begin > keycode 85 = KP_6 KP_Right > keycode 79 = KP_7 KP_Home > keycode 80 = KP_8 KP_Up > keycode 81 = KP_9 KP_Prior > keycode 91 = KP_Decimal KP_Delete > > (you may need to add the following to ~/.xinitrc or some other place to > make sure it gets used): > > usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap But surely this gets run AFTER you login from gdm ? Numlock is working fine from tty's and KDE. > Or there is also a program called numlockX: > http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli/en/numlockx/ > > -CraigW Yes, I'm using it. But I've tried adding the numlockx command to many startup scripts below /etc/ without success (as I mentioned above- it works fine everywhere else. Not a big deal, but it is driving me crazy trying to figure out where to put it. all the best, Robert_L -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
