Bug 326065

Summary: NumLock is always off
Product: [Unmaintained] Keyboard status applet Reporter: bkorb
Component: generalAssignee: Gunnar Schmidt <gunnar>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: rockonthemoonfm
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian stable   
OS: Linux   
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Description bkorb 2013-10-15 19:26:44 UTC 
If the setting has been removed, then it is a setting bug.

If the setting has been moved instead, then my hour spent Googling the web was insufficient because the documentation for something that needs to be very obvious could not be found.  I did find many complaints about it, but the old resolutions were obsoleted by recommendations that no longer work either.  Likely, there is some new and better (but hard to find) way of doing this.  Please make the setting findable in "System Settings".  Thank you so much!!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to permanently set NumLock on
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Actual Results:  
no results

Expected Results:  
I expected "numlock" in the System Settings search box to yield what I need.  Meandering the whole app did not get me to the solution either.

KDE 4.8.4

I am calling it "major" due to the number of Google hits.  A lot of people seem to be significantly inconvenienced and the fix has to be trivial.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2013-10-15 19:38:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 187096 ***
Comment 2 bkorb 2013-10-15 19:59:08 UTC 
bug 187096 is marked, "worksforme", but it still doesn't work.  If the fix requires waiting for years on end for the "worksforme" version to gradually filter out.  Anyway, "worksforme" is wrong, since *SOME*thing changed, even if nobody knows what they did to fix it.  Please annotate the bug with which version one has to wait for to get this thing solved.  Thanks.
Comment 3 rockonthemoonfm 2013-10-16 09:31:44 UTC 
in kde 4.10 and 4.11 (don't know if in 4.9 too) this feature works.
check to have keyboard daemon active.
anyway 4.8 is no longer mantained upstream, filing a bug in debian bugsystem and asking to backport relative bits is the way to go.