recent changes in gdm or num lock default in F15?

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:39:24 +0000 (UTC)
Andre Robatino <robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram <metherid <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> http://ask.fedoraproject.org/question/224/how-do-i-get-num-lock-to-be-turned-on-at-boot-time?answer=393#393
> 
> I know about that now, having come across it in the process of
> googling for answers to my original question. But it doesn't explain
> how my father was able to use numbers in his password, and use the
> numeric keypad to enter them both in the install and in gdm after
> installation, without any problems until recently. He certainly
> didn't have numlockx installed, since I would have had to walk him
> through it over the phone, and I didn't know about it until yesterday.
> 
> 
> 

Andre:
If KDE is involved, the state of the num lock key at bootup can be
controlled by a setting in the KDE configuration pages. Sorry, I can't
be more specific, but I'm using xfce.

-- cmg