Numlock as standard?

[taharka]

Tim wrote:

>Marcus Zingmark said:
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>>>>How do I get Numlock to be on as standard in Fedora Core 4?
>>>>Would like it for all users if possible.
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>Henry Hartley wrote:
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>>You could just turn it on in the BIOS.  Oh, wait, that doesn't
>>work.  I still don't understand why Linux cannot simply abide
>>by the BIOS setting and leave numlock alone.  Even Windows 95
>>got that right.
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>Yes, I find that annoying too.  What's more annoying is when you turn it
>on, then go to another window and that application acts as if it's off.
>Even if Linux paid attention to the initial setting by the BIOS, it
>wouldn't help (for that reason).  Nearly every application you try and
>type in requires you to toggle the numlock two or more times to get it
>working again.
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>Does anyone using that extra utility program (which wasn't mentioned in
>the message that I'm replying to) know whether it overcomes this
>particular annoyance?  I'm always loathe to install things just to try
>out something.
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Which "extra utility program" are you referring to? There have been 
three mentioned in this thread (numlock, numlockx & lock-keys-applet). 
Having said that, I can speak for numlock 
(numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm) on fc3 which the OP was interested in. 
The answer is yes, it does overcome that particular annoyance ;-)

taharka

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