[D. McC] 2009/01/03:  I've been trying to find the simplest way to make "Num Lock" come on automatically (on Puppy Linux 4.1.1, where it doesn't). I've already ascertained that installing a program such as "numlockx" is ''not'' the simplest way. All I really need to do, it seems, is to have the computer (1) determine whether Num Lock is already on, and (2) emulate a Num_Lock keypress if it isn't. Can somebody tell me if Tcl provides a way to make these actions as simple as they seem? If so, thanks in advance! 

[Scott Beasley] 2009/01/03: This [http://wiki.tcl.tk/4238] may get you going in a direction, not sure if it's the right one though.  X will have to be up I suppose for a pure tcl'ish solution to work.  Some C code may be in order.

[D. McC] Sorry, but I didn't see anything in that page that would help me determine whether Num Lock is on or emulate a Num_Lock keypress. I tried some options with [event generate], but they didn't work either.

[Scott Beasley]  Yeah, event generate would be your only choice, but X would have to be up at the point of running it even if it worked.
I would hackup the numlockx code to make a simple command line interface and call int at init time in the boot or just before you run X.
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