From: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 16:29:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160524212927.GA502@archlinux.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160524172705.GA1307@ca.inter.net>
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 01:27:06PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 160524 wabe wrote:
> > Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> >> I've noticed that the NumLock key goes off after 'startx'.
> >> My window manager is Fluxbox & I don't see any mention there
> >> nor does there seem to be any setting under /etc/X11 .
> >> I have added 'numlock' to the default runlevel,
> >> but that makes no difference.
> > I had the same "problem" under XFCE till I added to my .xinitrc
> > 'xsetleds +num -caps -scroll'
>
> I tried that, inserting it before/after 'startfluxbox',
> but it makes no difference.
> 'xsetleds' has no man file & 'which xsetleds' yields nothing.
>
> Thanks for trying so far. Does anyone have further advice ?
Sorry if I missed something in this thread, but could you confirm you
have the x11-misc/numlockx package installed and have, as the last two
lines in your .xinitrc:
numlockx&
exec fluxbox
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-24 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-24 11:09 [gentoo-user] NumLock puzzle Philip Webb
2016-05-24 13:50 ` wabe
2016-05-24 17:27 ` Philip Webb
2016-05-24 17:41 ` wabe
2016-05-24 18:09 ` Mick
2016-05-24 21:29 ` Dutch Ingraham [this message]
2016-06-06 3:12 ` Philip Webb
2016-06-06 4:18 ` Dutch Ingraham
2016-06-06 6:28 ` Philip Webb
2016-06-06 8:29 ` Peter Humphrey
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