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Numlockx: Enabling the numeric keypad at boot

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! :-)