RE: NUM Lock , Home, End

["Seth Goodman" <sethg@GoodmanAssociates.com>]

> From: Marty [mailto:martyb@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 6:10 PM

<...>

> I never set them, and these keys work for me both in VTs and X apps,
> on my Sarge systems.  Earlier versions of Debian and X had problems
> like this.

Well, my BIOS sets NUMLOCK on, but Sarge and Etch both turn it off, at least
with the gnome desktop.  I have to manually turn NUMLOCK back on.  Even the
bozos in Redmond have figured out that users want the computer to remember
how _they_ like it without the user taking any action or editing any
initialization scripts.  If we want Linux to be the ubiquitous OS, and not
just for the cognoscenti, we can't ignore details like this.


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Seth Goodman