Introduction

The numeric keypad is not necessarily activated at boot time, which can quickly become annoying. Here’s a method to enable it automatically on Gnome.

Installation

  apt-get install numlockx
  

Configuration

We’ll use numlockx with GDM. Insert this line into /etc/gdm/Init/Default:

  test -x /usr/bin/numlockx && /usr/bin/numlockx on
  

Now you just need to restart your GDM and it works! :-)

Last updated 09 Jul 2008, 06:40 CEST. history