[ltp] Re: Numlock does not work

Gustavo Halperin linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:02:57 +0200


Dominik Stein wrote:

>>
>> Thank you. That activates the cursor movement when I press shift-Num. 
>> Do you
>> know another trick how to get the numbers instead?
>>
> ...be sure that you have turned off AccessX (or whatever they call 
> it), by means of which you can
> move the mouse cursor using the console numbers.
>
> I had to convince SaX2 to deactivate AccessX by explicitly activating 
> it and re-deactivating it again. Now, NumLock prints numbers...
>
> PS: Tino mentioned another way to activiate the NumLock on a ThinkPad 
> in his email from 5th May 2001:
> --boquote--
> I have this line in my .Xmodmap (TP 765L, XFree86 4.0.3):
> keycode 77 = Num_Lock

You mean add a file called '.Xmodmap' on my home directory, add this line.
 And a Num_Lock will work??

> --eoquote--
>
> Best regards,
> Dominik.
>

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gustavo halperin
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