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olivarch

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Registered: 2013-01-26

Posts: 47

[SOLVED] Numlock on bootup not working

Hi,

on my Clevo P650RP I'm using Gnome (with GDM) on Wayland.
My numlock key is working when I press it.

So to get the numlock at login time I followed this page :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … otup#GNOME

• I tried to install numlockx, but it doesn't work. Launching the command with on/off/toggle has no effect.
  So https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … Bootup#GDM and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … otup#GNOME are not working.

• Next I tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … 40.service , no chance, at least for login time.(Maybe after login it's activating the numlock)

• Using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac … te_service .Same here, at login time still no numlock. However AFTER login the numlock is locking !

So, I guess, the question is how can I do have this systemd service  activated BEFORE login time ?

Thanks.

Last edited by olivarch (2017-02-06 10:54:50)

dante4d

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2007-04-14

Posts: 176

Re: [SOLVED] Numlock on bootup not working

Did you check your BIOS for NumLock settings? Sometimes, you can set the initial state on boot there...

olivarch

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Registered: 2013-01-26

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED] Numlock on bootup not working

Nothing on the Bios side.

Experimenting with the systemd-boot menu, if I start a session in command line (no GUI) then the textual login/password has the numlock locked.
(And, still, if I start with GDM then the GUI login has numlock unlocked.)

olivarch

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Registered: 2013-01-26

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED] Numlock on bootup not working

Magic of updates, issue is solved now.... No idea what fixed it.