numlockx

[Doug Holland]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 1:17 pm, Bob Jarman wrote:
> Greetings,
> I've been a confirmed SuSE user for several years and just installed
> kubuntu - good-bye SuSE!
>
> Question tho - how do I get numlockx to apply the Xsessions?  I set LED=
> +num in console-tools and the numlock led comes on during boot but goes
> out when KDE loads.  I have tried apt-get but it says there is no such
> package; I fetched numlockx from Sourceforge but 'make' fails apparently
> because it expects an earlier version of X. I might have a similar
> problem with KBear but think it is simply a path issue that can be
> resolved.
>
> One more question while I'm here - does anyone know how to make the text
> (titles, selections, etc.)of Firefox larger (but I'm at the moment
> beginning to think Konquerer is superior anyway - much faster, that is
> for sure)?
>
> tfth
>
> bob

In KDE, if you go into the Control Center, then to Peripherals -> Keyboard, 
there should be an option in there to turn the NumLock on or off when KDE 
starts.