Numlock on startup?

[Tez]

gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How do I get numlock to behave nicely on Kubuntu?
>
> i.e. if numlock is set on in bios or you want to override bios
> settings (on o off), how do you do so?
>
> For a heads up I found this reference...
> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/NumLock?highlight=%28numlock%29
>
> "
> Enabling NumLock during startup
>
> Install numlockx using Synaptic or apt-get
>
> Edit /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default
>
> Find the line
> exit 0
>
> Add the following code above that line
> if [ -x /usr/bin/numlockx ]; then
>   /usr/bin/numlockx on
> fi
>
> "
>
> but this referes to gdm and that folder does not exist on my system...
>
> I have successfully installed numlockx on my system using apt-get but
> the man page is spectacularly useful :-)
>
> I understand that one needs to activate this at some stage in a script
> shell, as described above, the question is where?
>
> to tell the truth I'm surprised that one has to go to such lengths as
> running a separate script. Surely there is an X or KDE configuration
> file or panel where this stuff is set - for instance, how does
> numlockx achieve this task? does it set the key explicitly or does it
> set a variable that tells X what to do?
>
>
>
> --Dr Paul van den Bergen
> Chance favours the prepared mind
>
Just go in to System Settings, under the Hardware section click on
Keyboard, then under "NumLock ok KDE Stsrtup" click "Turn on".
If you want it on before KDE starts you can add
"/usr/bin/numlockx on" to /etc/rc.local

Tez