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post	publish	true	Activate numpad on startup	Julien Lengrand-Lambert	jlengrand	julien@lengrand.fr	http://www.lengrand.fr	29	http://www.lengrandlambert.fr/wordpress/?p=29	2011-10-18 13:14:24.000000000 +02:00	tips	numpad startup activate	id author author_email author_url date date_gmt content 7643 elchusco elchusco12du63@gmail.com MjAxMy0wNC0wNCAxMzowNDoxNyArMDIwMA== MjAxMy0wNC0wNCAxMjowNDoxNyArMDIwMA== Hi! I know this is an old post but i noticed that today, april 2013, the command numlock isn't included inthe numlockx package. So I used the numlockx cmd in the autostart SH script. I don't know if it was a mistake, but i'd like to correct it. However, thanks for this tips... id author author_email author_url date date_gmt content 8422 Julien Lengrand-Lambert julien@lengrand.fr http://www.lengrand.fr MjAxMy0wNC0xMSAwOToyNTo0MSArMDIwMA== MjAxMy0wNC0xMSAwODoyNTo0MSArMDIwMA== hey, Thanks for letting me know. I'll check that next time I boot my Linux machine :). Which distro are you running on ? id author author_email author_url date date_gmt content 10188 Fabian hello@fabianpeter.de http://fabianpeter.de MjAxMy0wNS0wNyAwODoxNjoxOSArMDIwMA== MjAxMy0wNS0wNyAwNzoxNjoxOSArMDIwMA== Just tried this. After installing "numlockx", the correct command on Crunchbang (debian wheezy) is "numlockx on/off/toggle" :) id author author_email author_url date date_gmt content 10417 Julien Lengrand-Lambert julien@lengrand.fr http://www.lengrand.fr MjAxMy0wNS0xMCAxOToxNDowMSArMDIwMA== MjAxMy0wNS0xMCAxODoxNDowMSArMDIwMA== Hey! Thanks for the feedback. It is more than likely that you´re right, this post is old and I haven´t used Linux in while! I´ll check that on my next install :)

Hi all,

I recently switched from Ubuntu to Crunchbang as main distribution for my home computer and I may even talk a bit more about it in a later post ;)

The main topic here is that my num pad wad not activated by default on boot, and I had to tap Verr. Num on each login. My password  having numbers, it quickly became quite boring . . .

Running Ubuntu, the solution was quite simple  : installing the numlockx package from the main repository.

Gaving Debian now, I tried the same :

{% highlight bash %} $sudo apt-get install numlockx {% endhighlight %}

The package did install actually, but seems like it was not enough. . .

To run on startup, this module had to be added to the list of apps to be started after the X server .

On my Openbox based Crunchbang, the solution was to edit my autostart.sh to add a new line :

{% highlight bash %} $ echo "(sleep 5s && numlock) &" \

~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh {% endhighlight %}

That's all !

CU

Julien