[NMLUG] numlock ON

[timothyemerick at yahoo.com (Tim Emerick)]

I not only prefer to have it on, I MUST have it on.  I would probably have
rejected the same motherboard for the quasi/same reason.  I WANT the numlock
key on.  I've figured out how to get it to stay on in Win XP but keep
forgetting how to do it with linux.


--- Steve Browne <sbrowne@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I don't know about you guys (which is why I'm bringing it up), but I
> HATE numlock ON. It seems to be an artifact left over from the early
> days of Unix. Whenever numlock is inadvertently left ON, it screws up
> any number of keyboard sequences for me.
> 
> These days normally the motherboard bios will toggle the numlock
> function. I recently rejected a Gigabyte motherboard because its bios
> had no numlock toggle. CAN YOU IMAGINE?
> 
> In Linux you can turn numlock off on boot through subterfuges
> involving /etc/rc*.d, but I'd love to know, does ANYONE LIKE TO HAVE
> NUMLOCK ON? Or do you just rip the key out?
> 
> Steve
> Stephen B. Browne
> sbrowne@ix.netcom.com
> "Ubi bene, ibi patria."
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