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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
