On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:20 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> On Sunday 04 February 2007 15:56, Dog Walker wrote:
> > I have a Zonet 4-port KVM  switching a keyboard between three
> > computers and a mouse between two of them. For one of the boxes, I
> > leave the  NumLock key on, for another I leave it off. For the third,
> > I'd like to have the ScrollLock light on. (If I add a fourth, I'd want
> > to have both the NumLock and ScrollLock lights on when it is selected
> > as having the keyboard.) With this scheme, I should be able to look at
> > the keyboard, and from the state of the NumLock and ScrollLock lights,
> > be able to tell which computer is going to get the keystrokes.
> >
> > The problem is that pressing the ScrollLock key causes problems (for
> > me) with the readline behavior in Konsole without lighting the
> > ScrollLock light.
> >
> > I currently have SuSE 9.0, 9.3 and 10.2 on the boxes.
> > --
> > I have seen the future and I'm not in it!
> 
> Probably I'm not either.  I've been using IBM k/b's for years, but I have no
> idea what the Scroll Lock key does.

I believe it is from the "olden" ( you know, 10-15 years ago ) days when
you used a crt with _no_ graphics and it was used to stop the screen
from scrolling info by faster then you could read it.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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