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Asked: 2015-01-02 12:00:20 +0800 CST

Proper Usage of Num Lock

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I come from windows, and there I had the habbit of selecting the entire line by using SHIFT+Home. Now, when I press this combinations, I get just a 7. No matter which is the state of the Num Lock key.

So, my question is: how can I select the entire line of text, by using keyboard shortcuts? How can I fix this problem. I don't need the 7 character to appear, when I press SHIFT+Home

PS: when NumLock is ON I get the numbers from the keys. When NumLock is OFF it moves the cursor as expected. The problem is that if I press Shift + NumLock Key I get the number.

I need to select the text while I keep shift pressed.

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  1. Best Answer

    Here the steps:

    1. Open up Terminal
    2. Type sudo gedit /etc/default/keyboard
    3. Modify XKBOPTIONS="" to XKBOPTIONS="numpad:microsoft"
    4. Save and exit the editor
    5. Reboot the system to take the changes in effect.

    I hope the issue will now be solved.

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