SDB:Configurating NumLock / CapsLock on the text console automatically
Question:
How can the NumLock key be automatically set?
The BIOS configurations are overwriten at the kernel start...
Solution:
The programme setleds
serves for this purpose. It offers two possibilities:
- A personal configuration. For this, it takes e.g. the following sequence in its
.bashrc
:
case `tty` in /dev/tty[0-9]) setleds -D +num -caps ;; esac
- A systematic configuration.
From SuSE Linux 4.4 on there are two variablesKBD_NUMLOCK
andKBD_CAPSLOCK
in the file/etc/rc.config
(up to SuSE Linux version 7.3), which determine the configuration during the boot sequence. IF you use SuSE Linux from version 8.0 on please edit the file/etc/sysconfig/keyboard
.
Further information:
See man setleds
.
<keyword>numlock,capslock,console,setleds</keyword>