Turn On NumLock at Startup in Linux
Written by BinnyVA on August 14, 2007 – 11:23 pm -
Numlock is something that should be always on. I don’t understand why it is often off at start up. If that is the case for your system, this page will help you to turn on the Numlock as system start up in Linux.
BIOS
There is an option in BIOS that lets you set the status of Numlock at start up. You will have to search around for this one - it is located in different places in different BIOS versions. Make sure that it is on.
KDE
If the BIOS trick did not solve the issue, KDE has a configuration option where this can be set. That’s why I love KDE - whatever you want, there is an option for that…
Control Panel -> Peripherals -> Keyboards
numlockx
It you still have the problem, install the program called ‘numlockx‘. This will turn on the Numlock at start up.
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August 24th, 2007 at 8:14 am
you shud really consider renaming ur site to “kde-desk” rather than lindesk.atleast focus equally on Gnome,gtk+2 and Xfce like Desktop env and libs.they are rocking for many and fyi Gnome users are very much happy unlike what kde fanatics are spreading.Gnome stands for simplicity and the pioneer project of FSF.
August 24th, 2007 at 10:33 am
Sorry about that - I will try to write more articles for Gnome in the future. But I use KDE - most of my tips will be KDE specific. I will try to yet some of my ‘Gnome’ friends to contribute some articles.
September 2nd, 2007 at 7:29 am
Ahh.. Thank You.
This is something that I’ve been desperately looking for. Num Lock switched off was very annoying to me.
Thanks for writing this up!
Congrats on your new blog. Looking forward to read more
great stuff.
March 20th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
How can I switch on NumLock in Gnome?
I don’t want to go to BIOS.
I am interessted in command or something else to do.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
@yura
You could use the numlockx program to do it.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:31 am
it probably has to do with the fact that a lot of laptops use some keys as a numpad when numlock is on. I can imagine it would get annoying for laptop users to have to turn it off every time they wanted to type.
August 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am
There’s obviously a reason you’ve chosen KDE.