On Tuesday 21 November 2000 06:43, you wrote:
> skidley wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Rune Kallhovd wrote:
> > > Paul wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Goldenpi wrote:
> > > > >Number lock keeps resetting. There is a service which will in
> > > > > theory do something but I never saw any effect when I use it.
> > > > > The numlock still resets at each runlevel change.
> > > >
> > > > In mdk 7.1 I only needed to run "numlock"
> > > > In mdk 7.2 it is " /usr/X11R6/bin/enable_X11_numlock"
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
> > > > >----- Original Message -----
> > > > >From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > >Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 10:36 PM
> > > > >Subject: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?
> > > > >
> > > > >> I have been looking through the DOCs but haven't discoverd
> > > > >> how to have NUMBER LOCK active when starting KDE.
> > > > >> Suggestions?
> > > > >> TIA - Cmo
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Men are from earth.
> > > > Women are from earth.
> > > > Deal with it.
> > > >
> > > > http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403
> > > > Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
> > >
> > > This is apparently a bug in mdk 7.2, and the fix for this should
> > > be to run the following from a console: "touch
> > > /etc/sysconfig/numlock"
> >
> > How would changing the timestamp fix that? what should this file
> > be? Mine is NumLock and is 0 bytes. it's nothing! I guess this may
> > be the bug? --
> > Chad Y.
> > Registered Linux User #195191
> > Registered Linux Box #86749
>
> This fix is only something I read about on another site. Also note
> the caps difference between your 'NumLock' and 'numlock' in the
> suggested fix?
At the same time by adding enable_X11_numlock to your windows manager
start up you don't have to retype it everytime. That's what I've done.
--
Eddie Torress
www.veloct.net
