Re: keyboard with a numeric keypad which does not work in Fedora

[Chris Murphy]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Rick Stevens  wrote:
> On 05/17/2016 10:19 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a laptop with its own keyboard which lacks a keypad, and a USB
> > keyboard with a keypad. I plug in the keyboard and the keypad doesn't
> > work anywhere in Fedora. So... how do I make that work?
> >
> > I don't care for it to work in the console, I only care if it works in
> > GNOME Calculator really.
>
> Just a wild idea, but if the main keyboard has a numlock key, try
> toggling it and use the keypad. The system may be treating the keypad as
> cursor control.

Hmmm, the numbers are indeed acting as navigation control in a gedit document.

So what I need is a software numlock. Maybe some kind of conf file setting.