On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 02:58:12AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: > > > To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first > > > place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people > > > want it on anyway? > > > > note that numlock is generally considered a modifier in X (and is set > up as modifier in debian) and can screw up your keyboard bindings > (mostly in WM but for some other apps asd well) > > erik Not until I recently started to use GnuCash and needed NumLock, had I bothered to get my severly customized .twmrc to behave even under NumLock. As long as X uses NumLock as a modifier, I'd say it is a good thing that it is not on by defualt.
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