Activating Numlock on Bootup
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TTY (Teletype) Consoles 1-6
To activate the numlock during normal bootup in TTY consoles 1-6 (tty1 -> tty6), add the following line to /etc/rc.local
:
for tty in /dev/tty?; do /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < "$tty"; done
note: Virtual Consoles vc/1 -> vc/6 were superseded by tty1 -> tty6 on the 2009-08-02.
X.org
If you use startx to start your X session, simply install the numlockx package and add it to your ~/.xinitrc
file.
Install numlockx
:
# pacman -S numlockx
Add it to ~/.xinitrc
before exec
:
#!/bin/sh # # ~/.xinitrc # # Executed by startx (run your window manager from here) # numlockx & exec your_window_manager
KDM
If you use KDM as a login manager, add :
numlockx on
to your /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup
, or to /opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xsetup
if you're using KDM3.
KDE Users
You may alternatively add a script to your ~/.kde/Autostart directory:
$ nano ~/.kde/Autostart/numlockx
Add the following:
#!/bin/sh numlockx on
And make it executable:
$ chmod +x ~/.kde/Autostart/numlockx
Note: There is an option in kcontrol (for kde3) and systemsettings (for kde4) to activate numlock at kde start. but it is currently broken because noone dare to fix something that someone broke (it was working one day ..)
GDM
First make sure that you have numlockx (from extra) installed. Then, GDM users may add the following code to /etc/gdm/Init/Default:
if [ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ]; then /usr/bin/numlockx on fi
SLiM
In the file /etc/slim.conf find the line:
#numlock on
and remove the "#"