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Hakaishin
Asked: 2019-07-26 23:14:25 +0800 CST

How to enable numlock at boot time for login screen in Ubuntu 18.04?

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I have a fresh 18.04 install and would like to enable the numlock key for login, without switching to the older lightDM. I saw this, this and this, but when trying the gdm approach I get: Command 'gdm' not found but as said above I would like to achieve this small task, without having to switch to lightDM or do some other major changes.

numlock lightdm 18.04

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  1. Best Answer

    Do the following:

    xhost +SI:localuser:gdm

sudo su gdm -s /bin/bash

    Now, you need to use gsettings or dconf #or dconf-edit if you have it

    Go to /org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/keyboard/numlock-state and change it to on

    or simply after the two lines do this

    dconf write /org/gnome/settings-daemon/peripherals/keyboard/numlock-state "'on'"

    or

    gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.keyboard numlock-state 'on'

    Now reboot

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