Turn Num Lock OFF by default

[Gavin Jones-Verity]

The keys marked U, I, O, P, J, K, L, ;, M, ., + seems to have function permanently switched on, and the only way to get these keys to type their proper characters is to press the function key while typing, this problem only began after the latest update (18//4/2/13).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.296-0~370~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic-pae 3.2.40
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.1+elementary3~precise1
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Thu Apr 18 20:46:07 2013
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 i386 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Turn off Num Lock.

[Alberto Corona (albcoron)]

This was affecting me too, rebooting sets num lock back on. Is there anyway to permanently turn it off or fix this?

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Corentin, according to this report, num lock is not being remembered. I'm seeing a lot of bug reports where people with the keyboards we discussed are not able to figure out that num lock has to be turned off for their keyboard to perform as expected. This makes me reconsider our decision to have num lock ON by default. Will you submit a branch that changes it to OFF by default?

[Corentin Noël (tintou)]

The settings are only remembered if the user set it off on the greeter screen, not on the desktop.
I pushed a branch sat has this off by default