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NumLock is completely useless, and I want to disable it completely on Linux
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Mar 15, 202618480 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Forget all the rants about Caps Lock, Num Lock is the most useless key of them all. It's never, ever useful. You don't want to use your numpad as an arrowpad, since the arrows are 1cm away from it. Ever. There was a time when some keyboards had a numpad but no dedicated arrow keys. They don't exist…
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Well for your first question, you can remap it to nothing with : where # is the scan code of NumLock. You can find the scan code using . Instead of nothing you can remap it to any key you'd like.
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