numlock is not active at login (gdm)

[eric]

When you want to log in at startup and your password is "abc123" for example, num lock is not active so you need to press num lock or (on some keyboards, e.g. French) use shift and "123".
Num lock only activates when gnome is loaded.

There is no easy way to change this default behaviour.

[Lightbreeze (nedhoy-gmail)]

Thought I'd point out Verr Num is French for the Num Lock key.

[eric (obrowny06)]

@Lightbreeze- Yes you are right it is "Num Lock Key" in english... Damned, everybody knows I am french now!!!
Sorry for that !!!

[Mathijs Dumon (zandmathijsje)]

+1 from me, and probably many others!

[ShawnJGoff (shawnjgoff)]

Usually, the state of NumLock can be set in BIOS. Linux should not (by default) override this setting.to log in at startup and your password is "abc123" for example, verr num is not active so you need to press verr num or use shift and "123".
Verr num only activates when gnome is loaded.
It would be nice

[eric (obrowny06)]

No, nothing in the bios and I've tried with vista and seven and it works well. I want nothing that works better in seven Rrrr !!!

[Andrew Cleveland (evil-saltine)]

Num lock setting is not always available in BIOS.

[Marián Bača (majoobaca-deactivatedaccount)]

When I want to activate Num lock key at GDM I must first install numlockx and edit gdm configuration file. It is not very user friendly.

[torzsmokus (torzsmokus)]

it's actually configurable (see e.g. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NumLock )
but it requires heavy black magic (from the POV of the avg. user)
there should be an easy way to set this.

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 403472, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Bug 403472 has been assigned to the right package , hence marking this earlier bug as a dup of bug 403472