[NTLUG:Discuss] Thanks for all the input

[Greg Edwards]

I understand your issues with keyboard mapping in *nix.  I never mess 
with my mappings so long as I have the standard keys.  I'm not a big num 
pad user so I don't need them on a regular basis.  I just hit the num 
lock when I have an app I want them for.

Again, back to the control panel.  You can set your keyboard in the 
hardware section.  This should setup your default keyboard across all 
apps.  If this doesn't do it for you reconfigure X and set it there. 
You should be running kdm as your login manager which does use the X setup.

I hope this helps.

Fred wrote:

> from bootup through the starting of KDE... the problem is now getting the
> correct keyboard emulation AT THE LOGIN screen. In init3 (non-X) it is ok, in
> KDE it is ok, but at the login screen the system (xdm?) uses some other
> keyboard file. My bitch with the way Linux or any other unix is set up is that
> something like this can happen at all. Once it is told that a particular piece
> of hardware is being used, I shouldn't have to go tell every damned piece of
> the system to use that hardware. That has been a pet peeve of mine about Unix
> since I first started fighting with it 15 years ago. Grrrr!!!!!  There are some
> definite plusses to M$'s philosophy....  maybe not their implementation, but
> you certainly have to give it to them for their ease of setup. Personally,
> overall I much prefer Linux, but there are parts of it that suck big time. AND
> they never get fixed.
> 
> Oh, well..... thanks again for all the help. Soapbox mode off.
> 
> Fred 
 


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