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Could anyone tell me how to get the NumLock to turn on automatically, upon
starting X? I am running SuSE 6.3.

Thanks,
Matt

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You can't. This was a feature in some older versions of X which has been
removed, AFAIK.

Thomas
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000 20:19:50 -0700, Matthew Leinhos

You can try 'man xset' and check the section on 'leds'. I never could
get this to work. Someone around here pointed me to this:

In your ~/.Xmodmap put:

keycode 79=7
keycode 80=8
keycode 81=9
keycode 83=4
keycode 84=5
keycode 85=6
keycode 87=1
keycode 88=2
keycode 89=3
keycode 90=0
keycode 91=period

Then 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap'. No light on the keyboard, but keypad works
fine. Make sure one of your start scripts is doing the xmodmap thing.

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I have the same problem with SuSe 6.3. With RedHat6.0 you could edit the file default.kmap and change the keycodes for numpad but I have not found such a file with SuSE.

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Sure, you can always remap the keypad keys to act _as_if_ NumLock was
on, but you can't _set_ NumLock on (bar pressing NumLock manually, of
course :-). This works with all distributions, see 'man xmodmap'.

Thomas
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In article

Actually I always have Numlock, and the appropriate led, on when I boot. I am
using SuSE 6.0. You can achiev this by editing your /etc/rc.config file. There
is an item like Numlock_boot_status. Afterwards run SuSEconfig.

Put something like this in your .Xmodmap file,
works for me...

 ! redefine numeric keypad & deactivate NumLock
 keycode 79 = 7
 keycode 80 = 8
 keycode 81 = 9

 keycode 83 = 4
 keycode 84 = 5
 keycode 85 = 6

 keycode 87 = 1
 keycode 88 = 2
 keycode 89 = 3

 keycode 90 = 0
 keycode 91 = period
 keycode 86 = plus
                                                                                                  !
 !deactivates NumLock key
 keycode 77 =            

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