On Saturday 25 August 2001 07:21, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 07:49:34AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > BTW what is /dev/null all about ?
> >
> > if tty > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> > case $(basename `tty`) in
>
> I added that in because, under certain circumstances (althou
On Saturday 25 August 2001 04:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> BTW what is /dev/null all about ?
>
> Thanks
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Shyam
man 4 null
Cliff
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 07:49:34AM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> BTW what is /dev/null all about ?
> if tty > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> case $(basename `tty`) in
I added that in because, under certain circumstances (although I
don't recall _which_ circumstances), evaluating $(basename `tty`)
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:25PM -0400, Jeff Maxson wrote:
>
> ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on
> num lock by default?
This is a hack I like. Got it from the archives a while back -
Create ~/.Xmodmap -
! redefines numeric keypad to be used without NumLoc
rohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: caps lock...num lock...whatever...
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:24:04AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock.
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:01:12PM +0200, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> Mmm..I don't mean to be rude, but is it not simpler to just push
> the key down ?
Maybe, but it's a simple, repetitive task. My computer is a lot
better at simple, repetitive tasks than I am, so I prefer to let it
handle them.
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On Friday 24 August 2001 16:16, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:24:04AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on
> > > num lock by default?
> >
> > Heve you checked the bios?
> ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do
you turn on
> num lock by default?
There's a program called 'numlockx', I believe. I'm using it
and it works fine. Find it at freshmeat.net. There's no DEB
version that I found easily...
Hall
>From the Config-HOWTO at
http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.3
Other special keys will be dealt with in the following sections. To enable
NumLock on by default, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:
for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do
setleds -D +num < $tty
don
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 08:24:04AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on
> > num lock by default?
> >
> Heve you checked the bios? ISTR a bios setting for setting the num
> lock state. Just c
Subject: caps lock...num lock...whatever...
Date: Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 11:06:25PM -0400
In reply to:Jeff Maxson
Quoting Jeff Maxson([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> ok, even stupider. I meant num lock, not caps lock. how do you turn on
> num lock by default?
>
Heve you checked the bios
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