Hello everybody, We are fews body with little bug, after install numlock on Mageai Linux, the XFCE not active the numpad, For fixing : open root : /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/keyboards.xml add : <property name="Numlock" type="bool" value="true"/> after : <property name="Default" type="empty"> thank you. Sorry for my bad english Bugzilla Mageia : https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2194 Arnaud
Created attachment 4079 keyboards.xml I had the same problem with Xubuntu 11.10, which even doesn't ship with a keyboards.xml file. It seems that XFCE disables numlock on startup by default, *if* there doesn't exist a keyboards.xml file (see http://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-settings/tree/xfsettingsd/keyboards.c, line 231). Because of this, all the workarounds based on numlockx (see http://wiki.xfce.org/faq#keyboard for example) doesn't work. (At least, I get numlock enabled in LightDM (http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Nummernblock_aktivieren#LightDM), but XFCE disables the already enabled numlock again when starting). Creating an appropriate keyboards.xml in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml or in ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml solved the problem for me, but I think XFCE should not touch the status of numlock *except* it is explicitly told to do so.
Fixed in fabc8dfa.