On Thursday 26 April 2007 10:34:00 pm 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? > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Here's a little snipped from my .xsession that does this [ `hostname` == cat-in-the-hat.dnsalias.com ] && numlockx on note that I use the same .xsession on different computers, so the hostname check is to make sure the only computer I do this on is my desktop, not my laptop. --Ken -- Ken Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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