Installing and newbies

[Neil Winchurst]

On Thu, 8 May 2008 15:14:56 +0200
"Jonas Norlander" <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:

> >  >
> >  System Settings -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Keyboard
> >
> >  Under 'NumLock on KDE Startup' select Turn On.
> >
> >  I still wonder why the default is to leave it turned off.
> >
> 
> I got one reason for why its turned off as default. On my laptop where
> the num-keys is my regular keys it would really make it hard to write
> normal characters.
> 
> / Jonas
> 
I would go along with that except, when I used to use
Mandrake/Mandriva and before that Suse, the numlock was always on at
the end of booting up the computer. I never had to make any changes
or to turn it on manually.

Neil Winchurst