Bug 508259

Summary:	Option to lock NumLock in one state
Product:	[Applications] systemsettings	Reporter:	Damglador <vse.stopchanskyi>
Component:	kcm_keyboard	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	butirsky, duha.bugs, kde, natalie_clarius
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.4.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Damglador 2025-08-14 18:24:33 UTC

SUMMARY
I think not many people switch between NumLock states often, so being able to just lock it in one state would be nice, to avoid accidentally turning it on/off. I personally want to always have it off, because numpad keys for me are set to control media. NumLock that doesn't do anything can then be used as a hotkey for something.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.1
Kernel Version: 6.15.9-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (13.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon Graphics
Graphics Processor 2: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2025-08-15 08:50:13 UTC

Locking modifiers seems unnecessarily complicated and out of scope.

Supporting key rebinding so the number lock key doesn't perform a number lock is something we should support. Generic key remapping is doable manually with xkbmaps, we should provide a GUI for it, there's open tickets for that.

Comment 2 Damglador 2025-09-08 14:26:47 UTC

> Supporting key rebinding so the number lock key doesn't perform a number lock is something we should support

And that's exactly what I want, but with a way to define the default state. So it can be set to on or off on boot and after that NumLock will just send NumLock signal that can be used for hotkeys but won't touch NumLock state