Comments on: Leave the Num Lock On! http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/leave-the-num-lock-on/ Resources, help, how to's and tutorials for Ubuntu Linux users! Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:02:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: runeshttp://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/leave-the-num-lock-on/comment-page-1/#comment-4007 runes Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:42:02 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1807#comment-4007 In the Alt+F2 dialog box type gconf-editor and burrow down as I showed Desktop -> Gnome -> Peripherals -> host-hostname -> 0 and there you will see a small select box, which is pretty self explanatory. Select it and you should be OK.I have not actually needed to use this however, as gnome seems to set the numlock to whatever state it was when you shutdown, or that's my experience, but having a full size keyboard, I never have numlock off, so can't really help with that any furtherExtracted from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=00b50b42d1104a42ae84dc540cf4eda2&t=1271999 In the Alt+F2 dialog box type gconf-editor and burrow down as I showed Desktop -> Gnome -> Peripherals -> host-hostname -> 0 and there you will see a small select box, which is pretty self explanatory. Select it and you should be OK.

I have not actually needed to use this however, as gnome seems to set the numlock to whatever state it was when you shutdown, or that’s my experience, but having a full size keyboard, I never have numlock off, so can’t really help with that any further

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]]> By: A Nonny Mousehttp://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/leave-the-num-lock-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3972 A Nonny Mouse Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:21:47 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1807#comment-3972 Personally I have a keyboard with no numeric keypad (IBM SK-8845, if you're interested), and I have the opposite problem. My Ubuntu keeps re-enabling numlock, which utterly shafts me. It does this *within a login session* -- one second I'm typing away, the next the right half of my keyboard changes, which leads tosentences 352e th5sThe scroll lock light flashes when this happens, and manually turning numlock off has only an extremely brief effect before it goes back on again. Eventually whatever's doing it seems to stop, and I can turn the lock off, and all is well.It's driving me completely spare, because when numlock is on I can't even type commands like "top" or "ps" to see what might be causing the problem. Personally I have a keyboard with no numeric keypad (IBM SK-8845, if you’re interested), and I have the opposite problem. My Ubuntu keeps re-enabling numlock, which utterly shafts me. It does this *within a login session* — one second I’m typing away, the next the right half of my keyboard changes, which leads to

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The scroll lock light flashes when this happens, and manually turning numlock off has only an extremely brief effect before it goes back on again. Eventually whatever’s doing it seems to stop, and I can turn the lock off, and all is well.

It’s driving me completely spare, because when numlock is on I can’t even type commands like “top” or “ps” to see what might be causing the problem.

]]> By: Boycott Novellhttp://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/leave-the-num-lock-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3875 Boycott Novell Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:57:13 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1807#comment-3875 [...] Leave the Num Lock On! [...] [...] Leave the Num Lock On! [...]

]]> By: RIdgelandhttp://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/leave-the-num-lock-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3868 RIdgeland Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:26:41 +0000 http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/?p=1807#comment-3868 I use 9.04. I don't remember what I did but numlock is ON each boot to GUI. I don't see it mentioned in /etc/gdm/Default. I don't have the menu option you mentioned either. BUT... any time I go to another session [Alt]+[Ctrl]+1 and login numlock is OFF. A patch to gdm would be GUI only. Anyone know a patch that starts text sessions with numlock ON? Your rant is right. Leave the BIOS setting alone Ubuntu! I use 9.04. I don’t remember what I did but numlock is ON each boot to GUI. I don’t see it mentioned in /etc/gdm/Default. I don’t have the menu option you mentioned either.
BUT… any time I go to another session [Alt]+[Ctrl]+1 and login numlock is OFF.
A patch to gdm would be GUI only.
Anyone know a patch that starts text sessions with numlock ON?
Your rant is right. Leave the BIOS setting alone Ubuntu!

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