From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.0.7-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: numlockx ideally would be run before the gdm login screen so users have it when logging in, and in some cases their keyboard LEDs display the correct state. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 has been suggested, but appending to that script cannot be removed easily. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): numlockx-1.0-4.fc4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: boot to runlevel 5 Actual Results: Numlock off Expected Results: Numlock on Additional info:
Submitting a vote in favor of this change. (Unless GDM becomes properly trained to obey the BIOS setting w.r.t. NumLock state.) Upon booting systems with USB keyboards the NumLock LED tells a lie at the GDM login greeter. All users here like to use the numeric keypad as a numeric keypad and find it doubly irritating when the NumLock state is off when the LED says its on.
I don't know how numlockx works but I'm not sure if simply running it before gdm will do the trick. In my experience, GDM is determined enough to turn numlock off even if it has already been turned on.
Here's the trick I've been using to turn numlock on at GDM: 1. Remove /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/numlockx.sh 2. In /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 add a line "/usr/bin/numlockx on". Could the numlockx RPM post-install script be changed to do the same?
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