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Re: numlock
- From: "J S" <vervoom at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:36:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: numlock
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- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
I Googled for "numlock off" and the first page had several
promising-sounding hits with instructions on how to force Windows to boot
up with NumLock off regardless of how the BIOS is configured.
The simplest solution (don't know which versions of Windows this will work
with) was to add a line to c:\config.sys that looks like "NUMLOCK=OFF").
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately our users' boxes are locked down
(they're on XP) so they wouldn't be able to edit that file. I was really
looking for a way to do this from the XFree startup script or configuration
anyway.
Sorry to come back to this again, but I have a lot of user faults reported
due to this problem. Our users' boxes boot up with the numlock key on so
this causes some confusion when they are told they have to switch the
numlock key off before starting XFree. Is there anything I can do to
switch this numlock behaviour off without user interference?
JS.
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