Re: Wish list for Fedora Core 2

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:26:36AM +0100, Bjorn Andersen wrote:
> 3) Num Lock. Some users had contacted the support department because
> they was unable to log in. They thought that the account was not
> created. We mix the passwords of letters and digits. The digits simply
> was not typed. It could be nice if I was able to turn Num Lock on as
> default. As an option for the keyboard that had effect even at the login
> screen. Why remember to type the Num Lock all the time, when it could be
> made automatic?

Numlock is a source of much pain and suffering. If Num Lock defaults on
then some laptops end up with really bizarre default key setups. I'm not
sure that there is a single "right" default for it.

The quickfix before X is started is something like

for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
do
	setleds -D num <> /dev/tty0$i
done

> Some things KDE have had for years (Num Lock and Menu Editor) and other
> things, like the boot splash have been default in SUSE for a long
> time...

I actually looked at the SuSE bootsplash code, it wasn't something we
felt was good enough for our codebase as an implementation. I'm not
arguing about the fact it has value.