NumLock at gnome start (was: Re: compiler problem)

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

ons, 13.04.2005 kl. 14.59 skrev Al Kroeger:
> I have this little convenience program I like to use called setnumlock.  
> It can be found/downloaded at 
> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/cg_x11numlock.html.  I've used it on 
> every FC release since FC2.  It will set numlock at login.
> When I try to install it with FC4t2, I get this error;
> # make
> gcc  -L/usr/X11R6/lib Numlock.o -o setnumlock -lX11 -lXtst
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [program] Error 1
> 
> According to the README file with setnumlock, you need the C compiler 
> (series d, package gcc)  and the include files of the X libraries 
> (package xdevel, series x).
> I did #yum install gcc and this is the return.
> # yum install gcc
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> extras-development        100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 960 kB    00:06
> developmen: ################################################## 3493/3493
> Added 220 new packages, deleted 220 old in 17.36 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> Nothing to do
> 
> I'm assuming that gcc is already installed.  Is this correct?  If I do 
> #yum install xdevel, this is the return;
> 
> # yum install xdevel
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> development               100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> extras-development        100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 960 kB    00:27
> developmen: ################################################## 3493/3493
> Added 220 new packages, deleted 220 old in 17.23 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: xdevel
> Nothing to do
> 
> Okay.... given that I'm somewhat ignorant with yum, please accomodate my 
> ignorance, and give me some advice on what I need to do.
> Thanks,
> owa

Why isn't it an option in gnome setup to set numlock to on on boot? That
would be really usefull !