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NumLock broken in Ubuntu

November 24th, 2009 matt Leave a comment Go to comments

I recently had the very unpleasant experience of not being able to use my number keypad on the side of my keyboard, whether NumLock was turned on or off.  I’m currently running Ubuntu 9.10 and apparently I’m not the only one who ran into this problem.  I found the fix buried in a forum from a user called bluefrog.

Ctrl + Shift + NumLock

That’s all it took, and I was back in business.  I’m not entirely sure how I fat-fingered that in the first place to disable the keypad, but I’m sure glad to have it back.  Thanks, bluefrog!

  1. Kat
    January 22nd, 2010 at 04:16 | #1

    Thanks!!!!

  2. liz
    April 28th, 2010 at 16:32 | #2

    Thanks so much, I had the same problem and couldn’t find the answer anywhere!! Now that I think of it, the num keys only went on the fritz after a particularly vigorous dusting of the keyboard. Cleanliness is next to numberlessness :-0. Many thanks again!

  3. Gareth C
    May 8th, 2010 at 21:59 | #3

    Thanks for this tip, been bugging me for last 30mins why it would not work.

  4. May 13th, 2010 at 01:10 | #4

    Thank you very much,
    I just solve my Problem.

  5. Connor
    July 20th, 2010 at 08:00 | #5

    Thank you!

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