[desktop] Numeric keypad on by default

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
At last i am able to at least confirm the problem does exist on a Dell
Optiplex 745 using Kubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 14.04.

I have seen other OSes doing the same thing on other machines.

Several years ago an office full of financial workers all had to press
Num-lock to get their Xp machines to recognise their keypads.  All had
their bios's set to have Numlock on by default.  I played around with a
sample to unset (in the bios), switch off and switch on again and then
reset and switch off and switch on again - along with various other things
and nothing seemed to have any effect.


Sorry i still don't have time to try out the instructions or test Gunnar's
consolidated page.


The argument about Gui vs Cli guides would be better as a separate thread.
Both ways have advantages and disadvantages.

Cli is less vulnerable to getting out-dated but do tend to scare people off
and gives Ubuntu and Linux generally as always requiring people to drop to
the command line and therefore being unusable for 'normal' users.

Gui guides, especially if they have screen-shots, are MUCH more attractive
to normal users and give them more confidence that the system is usable.

Both have merit and both cause problems.

I really like the Grub2 page that has now been split up into sub-topics and
all the pages i have needed have a Gui screen-shots method nearer the top
and then Cli methods (under new headings) lower-down.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 12 November 2014 01:30, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 2014-11-12 02:09, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> > Gunnar Hjalmarsson:
> >> Simpler - how?
> >
> > By:
> >  * Making the solution independent of the desktop environment.
>
> True. But the Ubuntu Desktop Guide only deals with Ubuntu with Unity.
> Answers/guides which try to be applicable to multiple desktops are
> usually more difficult to grasp and make simple things appear more
> complicated than they are.
>
> >  * Jumping several steps for just copying a line into the Terminal.
> >
> > You can take the following as example:
> > <
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/One%20Hundred%20Papercuts/Work-flow/Triage/Fixable/rmadison
> >.
>
> Well, rmadison is a command line tool, and I agree that the terminal is
> useful if you want to describe it. ;)
>
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