Friday, June 27th, 2008
How to get the use of your number pad back in Ubuntu
Number pad not working in Ubuntu? I feel your pain. After an upgrade to Hardy, my numberpad stopped working in Ubuntu Linux. I decided to look around in the Keyboard preferences and found my answer. I found that mousekeys was enabled. To get the use of my num pad back, all I had to do was disable mousekeys.
So, here’s the quick step by step to enable the number pad:
Step 1: Click on System Menu
Step 2: Mouse over on Preferences
Step 3: Click on Keyboard
This brings up the Keyboard preferences window.
Step 4: Click on the Mouse Keys tab
Step 5: Disable the “Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard” checkbox.
Step 6: Click close and ensure that your Num lock is on. :)
At this stage you should have full use of your number pad.
on Friday, August 15th, 2008 at 8:10 am:
Thank you! Now in my case it worked fine for weeks after the Hardy upgrade but all of the sudden a couple of days ago (probably because of an update), *poof* numpad functionality was gone. Disabling this setting worked.
on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 12:43 am:
Thank you for this. I don’t know how this become enabled, but this did the trick.