[vox-tech] Num lock key never locked

[Tim Coddington]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Stickel" <jjstickel1 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "lugod's technical discussion forum" <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
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?
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