Preferences > Keyboard > Mouse Keys enabled by default Ubuntu 9.10 + VirtualBox

[boomshankerx]

I've installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a VirtualBox 3.0.10 and could not use my number pad on both ps/2 and usb keyboard. 5 key was acting as mouse 0. I found a solution for previous version of ubuntu in the bug reports. Not sure why

Preferences > Keyboard > Mouse Keys is enabled by default during installation but it should not be in my opinion

Disabling that setting solves the problem

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

It shouldn't be on, and isn't here. Don't know what's going on, but at least it's not a bug in the driver.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no the mouse key option is not on by default

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try to figure what you do to trigger the bug there? you might activate it using a key combinaison too...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

no reply, closing the bug

[Sebastien Lacroix (sebastien-slacroix)]

Bizarre, we have also been hitting this dis-functioning Num-lock problem multiple times. Each time, it takes us ages to find out it is due to this Mouse-Keys feature in the "Universal Access" category. We are pretty sure we have never enabled it by ourselves, so it is either enabled by default, or by some system updates, or by some obscure shortcut keys. However I've just reviewed all the shortcuts and could not find anything related to enabling Mouse-keys.

Sebastien, if you are sure this feature is not enabled by default, then I propose to add the same Mouse-Keys feature check-box in System-Settings/Keyboard so it is faster to find it.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

@sebastien-slacroix) : yes I'm sure it's not enabled by default but I did hit that bug myself in the past and I'm pretty sure there is something which turn the feature on for you sometimes, the something could be a weird keybindings you might hit by error without noticing, I never figured what I was doing for it to happen though :-(