"Num-lock" enabling

[cato40]

Hi :
Here is my slight problem, I have just installed Mint Felicia XFCE RC1 ,I would like to "enable" the "NUm-Lock "
on start up,otherwise She is running lovely on a 700Mhz Celeron coppermine processor with a 13.2 Gb Hard Drive
and an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer,which was a "plug-n-play " it is a bit slow,but everything works.
cato40

I have just installed Mint 13 ,Mate ? or Cinnamon ?; now there are 2 questions I have
1) how can I enable "numlock "on startup ,that when I power down it does not remain on. the 2nd0 topic is how can one determine
what fork he is using on Mint 13 ,whether it is Mate ,Cinnamon ,or Gnome.
Thanking you ,cato40 maybe this should be transferred to "Newbies "?
cato40

[viking777]

Let's try the easy things first.

Boot up, switch on number lock then log out and make sure that 'save session' is ticked.

[cato40]

Hi :
I have tried the "auto" save, but that does not remember the setting, I have Mint 4.0 ,Daryna on my main Pc,
and it gets "enabled " when the boot-up is finished, also ,I believe most of Ubuntu's Distro also enable the "Num" locl.
Thanks anyway, Maybe it is the low resources that this lovely Distro is mounted on,700MHZ Coppermine,with 384Mb Ram
etc.An Epson Stylus Color 740 is connected,which was found when I was installing this Mint Felicia, 6.0RC1 XFCE.
cato40[quote]Nunc Aut Never

[viking777]

Ok so now the less easy solution.
Alt/F2
gconf-editor
navigate to
/desktop/gnome/peripherals/ and click on the word 'keyboard'.
A panel will open on the right.
Look for the words 'remember_numlock_state' and make sure there is a tick in the box next to it.

Then back to the easy method, switch number lock on, log out and save session.

[cato40]

Shall try, will let you know.
Thanks
cato40

[cato40]

No Luck, will do manually,
cato40

[5thAve]

Has anyone resolved this? I am having the same problem... Fluxbox CE (Mint 8 RC). In gconf-editor my "remember_numlock_state" is set to TRUE (checked) but system never starts with numlock engaged. Any way to fix this? Otherwise I am loving Mint.

[SurfaceUnits]

I'm experiencing the same issue on Mint 11. I followed the instructions to check 'remember_numlock_state' and found that mine was selected. I deselected it and rebooted and that was the first time my system started up with num_lock On. I'll let you know how my next reboot goes.

[Smiff2]

i'm guessing disabling that setting in gconf causes system to use bios default.. which would be a good thing. i've got this problem on a mint11 32bit machine andits v annoying for someone who uses the numpad for spreadsheets etc and has a keyboard with indicators on the base unit (stupid microsoft wireless keyboard!)

[SurfaceUnits]

well it cleared out some setting somewhere so that now when it is enabled it works like it should

[cato40]

Glad you had luck ; I am having the same problem, with Mint 17 on an Acer Veriton 2800 1Gb RAM 80GB HD.;
M17 ,XFCE appears to be slow.
But "Numlock " will not work when I press it to enter numbersinstead of the top row of number keys.
cato40