[ale] gnome3. I give up.

[Scott Castaline]

On 06/07/2011 05:24 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 12:56 PM, Rich Faulkner wrote:
>> Classic gnome and compiz is what I want and what works for me in this
>> application.  I do coding, website development and graphics on my home
>> system.  Reinventing the wheel is not what I want as a user and member
>> of this community; it's usability and ease of getting what I want from
>> an OS that I can configure to do what I want.  To that end the
>> "classics" worked just fine for me.  But that's just me....RinL
>>
> Not sure where I should jump in on this one, but I haven't seen anyone 
> mention anything about numlock not being set. Should I assume that I'm 
> the only one with not being able to set numlock on? If so can someone 
> enlighten me with a gsetting that would turn it on on logging in as 
> setting it in the gconf editor does not seem to have any impact. I 
> seem to have this nasty habit of using my numeric keypad, forgetting 
> that the annoying trait of not setting numlock on on login in Gnome3 
> which causes weird things to happen. I am really trying to accept 
> change as "change is good",,, isn't it?
Found it. The Fedora Forum didn't have an answer to others that had 
posted with the problem, but did find a post from Jan, 2011 on Ubuntu 
about numlockx (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock) that seems to 
have fixed it.