most recent 30 from superuser.com 2010-03-20T08:20:09Z http://superuser.com/feeds/question/71630 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://superuser.com/questions/71630/numlock-is-completely-useless-and-i-want-to-disable-it-completely-on-linux 5 niXar http://superuser.com/users/5338 2009-11-17T13:19:38Z 2009-11-18T10:57:22Z

<p>Forget all the rants about <code>&lt;CapsLock&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;NumLock&gt;</code> is the most useless keys 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. Never. </p> <p>There was a time when some keyboards had a numpad but no dedicated arrow keys. They don't exist anymore. You can find keyboards with no numpad but with arrow keys, but not the opposite. </p> <p>Therefore, <code>&lt;NumLock&gt;</code> is useless, and it only serves to aggravate me and, I presume, others. Please note that I do <em>not</em> want to know how to turn <code>&lt;NumLock&gt;</code> on at startup, I do not want to know how to tear the key off, I want to disable it so that it stays on all the time and can't be turned off by mistake. Any idea how to do that?</p> <p>Ideally I'd like to be able to reclaim the key for another use, such as a modifier that allows me to type hex on the numpad. </p> <p>Additionally I'd love to know how to turn off the equally useless mouse emulation triggered by <code>&lt;shift&gt;</code>+<code>&lt;NumLock&gt;</code>.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/71630/numlock-is-completely-useless-and-i-want-to-disable-it-completely-on-linux/71634#71634 5 John T http://superuser.com/users/1931 2009-11-17T13:35:00Z 2009-11-17T13:45:23Z

<p>Well for your first question, you can remap it to nothing with <code>xmodmap</code>:</p> <pre><code>xmodmap -e "keycode # = """ </code></pre> <p>where # is the scan code of NumLock. You can find the scan code using <code>xev</code>. Instead of nothing you can remap it to any key you'd like.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/71630/numlock-is-completely-useless-and-i-want-to-disable-it-completely-on-linux/71956#71956 1 NVRAM http://superuser.com/users/10829 2009-11-18T03:34:11Z 2009-11-18T03:34:11Z

<p>For further reading, check out the <a href="http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1%5Floadkeys.htm" rel="nofollow">loadkeys</a> command, it can alter the keyboard for console logins, too.</p>

http://superuser.com/questions/71630/numlock-is-completely-useless-and-i-want-to-disable-it-completely-on-linux/72074#72074 2 Mad Fish http://superuser.com/users/10986 2009-11-18T10:57:22Z 2009-11-18T10:57:22Z

<p>Are you sure it is not needed? For example, I use arrows on a numpad when playing FreeCiv, because it also have <strong>diagonal arrows</strong>, and usual arrows have not.</p>