Many thanks, that helps much. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Newmiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:08 PM Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Num lock key never locked
> Tim Coddington wrote: > > In the GUI, I see system\preferences and system\administration that look > > promissing for desktop environment adjustements. Is this were I get to the > > desktop environment of which you speak, or is it by going in through the > > terminal? > > > > Signed, > > Nick Newby > > > > Jonathan spoke of KDE... you mention Ubuntu, not Kubuntu, so while I > suppose you could have loaded KDE you are more likely using the default > Gnome GUI environment. I don't use Gnome... but I am pretty good at > typing things like "gnome numlock setting" into Google and finding > web pages like http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/kdegnome. Part of > not being a newbie is knowing what you are using... while I don't > particularly like the concatenated term "GNU/Linux" it does highlight > the fact that "Linux" is really a grouping of a lot of different > pieces of software, and through them you have relationships with > many different programmers and their foibles. Respect them individually > and you will be more effective at formulating questions and posing > them to the appropriate forum. [*] > > [*] Not meaning to imply that your question was in the wrong forum, > but sometimes asking even the right question but in the wrong place > can lead to a deafening silence or even complaints. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jonathan Stickel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 8:23 PM > > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Num lock key never locked > > > > > >> You might look around for settings in your desktop environment. In > >> KDE's control center you can choose the num lock to be 'on', 'off', or > >> 'unchanged' when logging in. > >> > >> Jonathan > >> > >> > >> Tim Coddington wrote: > >>> On my new 'puter, E4300 Intel CPU, 2Gb, SATAII, AsRock ConRoe945G-DVD > >>> motherboard (Yea, I can help burn DVD's if I get my burner working). > >>> > >>> newly loaded with Ubuntu 6.1 > >>> > >>> It would be nice to make the num-lock key come up in a locked state so > > the > >>> keypad would be useful to enter numbers on right away. I go into the > > BIOS > >>> setup utility and alter the value that I think should accomplish this, > > but > >>> each time boot is complete, the num-lock is off. Does Linux have > >>> something that toggles it off, thus overriding BIOS initial setup when > > it > >>> boots? > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
