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 2. 3. 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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 187096 ***
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.
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.