Numlock warning on password entry boxes

Hiisi hiisi at fedoraproject.org
Sat Dec 3 04:53:32 UTC 2011


On 3 December 2011 04:57, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/02/2011 02:18 PM, Chris Bredesen wrote:
>> Why does GNOME warn me that numlock is on?  I get warning for capslock;
>> you can unknowingly botch a password.  But numlock?  Are there keyboards
>> for which the non-numeric keys on the d-pad can type valid characters?
>>
>> Seems odd but I don't want to file a bug until I understand why it is
>> the way it is; I'm probably missing something.
>
> Laptops
>

Is there a way to turn it off? This feature irritates me badly. What's
the package name? I would dig through sources, erase those awful lines
of code and recompile it manually.
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