FG
💻 Software

NumLock is completely useless, and I want to disable it completely on Linux

Fresh7 days ago
Mar 15, 202618480 views
Confidence Score0%
0%

Problem

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…

Unverified for your environment

Select your OS to check compatibility.

1 Fix

Canonical Fix
Unverified Fix
New Fix – Awaiting Verification

Fix for: NumLock is completely useless, and I want to disable it completely on Linux

Low Risk

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.

Awaiting Verification

Be the first to verify this fix

Sign in to verify this fix

Environment