Numlock work as a user but not as another

[NoOp]

On 07/10/2008 08:33 AM, arief at gmail wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I just noticed that in Hardy, I can use numlock keys as the user I
> registered when installing hardy, but not as another user I created
> later on.
> 
> Other than that one fact, I'm yet to figure out what else
> differentiate the two users (both are set as administrators with
> access to everything listed in gnome's add user menu).
> 


Perhaps:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bhardy+%2Bnumlock
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/190579

There seem to be several workarounds in 190579 that might work for you.