[vox-tech] Num lock key never locked

[Jeff Newmiller]

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" <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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