numlock at boot

[Paul Morgan]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:36, Paul Morgan wrote:
> in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: numlock=on|off|bios|last
> (on at boot, off at boot, per bios, or "the way it was when you shut
> down")
> 
> when X starts, gnome or kde or whatever daemon is responsible for
> setting numlock would:
> if [ -r ~/.keyboard ]; then
>   # load this user's preferred layout and numlock
>   # thus allowing user settings to override global settings
> fi
> 
> when X restarts, or vty is respawned, then read global settings from
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

Note that the default value should be "off" so as not to change the
expected behavior for systems without a numlock value. -paul