Re modified: numlock, system wide, X and console?

[taharka]

spmirowski wrote:

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>> Marcus Zingmark wrote:
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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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>>>>> /// Marcus
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>>> You can install the numlock binary by downloading and installing the 
>>> following rpm:
>>> numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm
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>>> If you have configured yum to use my YJL Packages repository, you 
>>> can just (as root) run:
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>>> yum install numlock
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>> Oooh, this looks terrific. Follow up question then:
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>> How do I set up a startingprogram for all users? This guide only 
>> tells me how to start this program for each user...
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> How about system wide with it happening for the console and X.
> Is there a line for /etc/inputrc?
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After numlock-0.1-0.0.yjl.1.i386.rpm is installed & a user activates 
numlock following the instructions, a file named "session-manual" is 
created in the user's /.gnome2 directory with the following code;

#[Default]
#num_clients=1
#0,RestartStyleHint=3
#0,Priority=50
#0,RestartCommand=/usr/bin/numlock

Now, I just finished creating the file "session-maunal" (using gedit), 
copied "session-manual" to every user's /.gnome2 directory on a four 
user system (fc3) & all four users now have the number lock key 
activated upon login. When the user logs out, thenumer lock deactivates. 
Also, I had to change the ownership of "session-manual" to match each 
individual user. Looks like maybe the author of numlock, had the intent, 
of giving the user the choice of having the number lock key on by 
default eh?

> Stephen
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taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.