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Keypad Restored

After upgrading to Hardy I noticed that my numeric keypad was no longer working. Not a huge inconvenience, but when you’ve got one you like to be able to use it don’t you?

This morning – after trying to use it again – I decided to have another go at fixing it. A quick Google provided me with the solution:

  1. Go into the Keyboard Preferences (System >Preferences > Keyboard)
  2. Switch to the Mouse Keys tab
  3. Uncheck the box for Allow to control the pointer using the keyboard

Grammar excepted, a logical procedure but why (oh why) is it enabled by default?

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4 Responses to “Keypad Restored”

  1. martin says:
    April 2, 2008 at 5:00 PM

    are you sure you didn’t accidently hit the key combo to enable this? I don’t remember the combo but it could be possible….

  2. Shauvik says:
    May 2, 2008 at 7:34 PM

    Thanks for your post…

  3. Joe Schmetzer says:
    May 6, 2008 at 10:10 PM

    Thanks for the hint. Solved my problem nicely!

  4. johann says:
    July 21, 2008 at 11:11 PM

    Thanks, I would never ever found that (stupid default) option being enabled. Thats really an great way to deal with your users, Gnome Team….