Numlock as standard?

[taharka]

Kam Leo wrote:

>On 8/15/05, Marcus Zingmark <blackline at bodymodification.se> wrote:
>  
>
>>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4? Would like
>>it for all users if possible.
>>
>>/// Marcus
>>
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>
>Marcus,
>
>Get numlockx-1.0.tar.gz and save it to a local directory.  Uncompress
>the files via "tar xvzf numlockx-1.0.tar.gz".  Change to the newly
>created numlockx-1.0 directory.  Become the superuser, root, (i.e. su
>).   Follow the README directions.
>
>An excerpt is presented here:
>
>QUICK INSTALL :
>
>First of all, make sure this package isn't already included in your
> distribution ( e.g. Mandrake includes it ). If you distribution already
>  includes NumLockX, use their package instead ( it needn't be necessarily
>  called NumLockX, it may be e.g. part of some other package ).
>
>Otherwise, do :
>  ./configure
>  make
>  make install
>  make xsetup
>  make xinitrc
>
>
>The later steps ( ./configure, make, etc.) are what you need to do. 
>That's all there is to it!
>Numlock should start for each user.
>
>  
>
AFAIK this will not work!! numlockx only works up to RHL 9. Also, it's 
available as an rpm. The Fedora Cores require numlock & the latest 
version of Mandrake uses numlock. Are you using numlockx on any of the 
Fedora Cores successfully?

taharka

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