Re: NUM Lock , Home, End

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:45 -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Marty wrote:
> 
> > John Hasler wrote:
> >
> >> Marty writes:
> >>
> >>> I was thinking it should be handled during boot by an init script like
> >>> keymap.sh (just a guess).
> >>
> >>
> >> How would that set it correctly for each user?
> >
> >
> > Some init scripts use configation files in /etc/default, and I guess
> > the script's stop routine could store the NUMLOCK state upon system
> > shutdown, if that state is accessable from the system.
> 
> I think the job belongs in the shell and window manager/desktop config 
> files on a per-user basis.  I don't think it's a job for init.
> 

well it depends whether you want the non-GUI to have it on or off or
last value, in which case it'd be pre-XDM (etc) level

having not used MS WinXX for a while I can't remember if it's a correct
assertion that that OS uses 'remember last' (I thought it was just a
BIOS setting last time I looked)

-- 
Michael Bane
Atmospheric Physics Group
University of Manchester