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ninjaprawn

Member

From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

numlock wont start automatically in slim!

hi,

i cant get numlock to come on at start with slim & openbox! i have set the following in /etc/slim.conf

numlock        on

anyone know why??

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2007 - Started using Arch Linux as my only/main OS
- Samsung Series 3, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHz - 8Gb DDR3 ram - 700Gb HDD
On board intel Graphics & Sound

artiom

Member

From: France

Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 111

Re: numlock wont start automatically in slim!

There is a program named numlockx which you can use to set numlock on or off on a Xserver regardless window/login manager. It should be started anywhere in the start up scripts for your login manager.