Keypad Restored

Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 in Linux

After upgrading to Hardy I noticed that my numeric keypad was no longer working. Not a huge inconvenience, but when you’ve got one you like to be able to use it don’t you?

This morning - after trying to use it again - I decided to have another go at fixing it. A quick Google provided me with the solution:

Go into the Keyboard Preferences (System >Preferences > Keyboard) Switch to the Mouse Keys tab Uncheck the box for Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard

Grammar excepted, a logical procedure but why (oh why) is it enabled by default?

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are you sure you didn’t accidently hit the key combo to enable this? I don’t remember the combo but it could be possible….

Thanks for your post…

Thanks for the hint. Solved my problem nicely!

Thanks, I would never ever found that (stupid default) option being enabled. Thats really an great way to deal with your users, Gnome Team….

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