Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:25:48 -0700 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Num lock status on boot Message-ID: <4152180C.10303@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <41519253.7070908@daleco.biz> References: <200409221505.37494.michaelwichmann@gmx.net> <41519253.7070908@daleco.biz>
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Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Michael Wichmann wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> Just a quick question about this little thing, that bugs me from time >> to time:) Num-lock ist turned off by default after I boot up FreeBSD >> 5.2.1. Is there any way to enable it by default? >> >> Thanks, >> Micha >> >> >> > > There's a nifty little package in ports called "numlockx" > (/usr/ports/x11/numlockx) that worked for me in blackbox/ > fluxbox, xfce, and enlightenment, but doesn't seem to work > with GNOME, or at least the way I'm calling GNOME now > (gdm on ttyv0). I need to get annoyed enough to figure > out why, I guess. > > I just installed it and put "numlockx" in ~/.xinitrc, before > the lines starting the window manager ... or much of anything > else. Like I said, it worked as long as I was calling "startx"; > I guess now that gdm is starting GNOME for me, I need to find > another place to call it from... > > Kevin Kinsey Greetings! Have you tried putting it in... <drumroll> ...*.xsession*? :-D This is equivalent of .xinitrc when starting from xdm as opposed to the startx method. I see no reason why gdm should be radically different. -Henrik W Lund
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