Description of problem: I have noticed that with each fresh install of Fedora I have to go hunting for the right voodoo to get the numlock set by default. I would like to request change in Fedora to makes this easier for end users. The motivation is simple: there are people that like to use the numeric keypad for typing numbers instead of navigating. But currently there's no easy way to persistently configure this. To be clear I'm not asking numlock on as the distribution's default. What I do ask is an easy way to reconfigure this to default on boot after installation. The goal is one simple way (preferably gui driven) to configure the default numlock behaviour in all environments. That is: - gdm (to easily use numbers in passwords) - kdm (same as gdm, but for kde users) - gnome session - kde session - tty consoles - perhaps also for the other desktop environments In my research, I did find ways to enable numlock for gdm, kdm, gnome and kde sessions, often involving manipulation of some files in /etc directly. But I didn't find how to persistently set this for tty. - kde has an option in its preferences panel, so that's pretty easy. - kdm can be configure via a disabled-by-default option in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc. There's no gui for it though. - gdm take a little more work: * install numlockx * edit /etc/gdm/Init/Default * Add the following lines right before the final exit 0 command if [ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ]; then /usr/bin/numlockx on fi (source: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1551104&postcount=13 ) - gnome has numlock enabled following the gdm step. Note: the forum post I refer to above also has instructions to enable numlock for all tty's, but they don't seem to work on Fedora 19 on my system. Refer to these two posts: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1582936&postcount=19 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=1582936&postcount=28 For an end user (and even a user with years of experience) it's just too weird you have to go through these hoops in different locations only to change the preferred state of the numlock led...
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