I find it very annoying that the numlock is not activated at startup in the login screen GDM, especially when using a password that contains numbers. I tried the How To: "Setting up numlock on start up" but noticed that the numlock is activated just after logging in, at the splash screen of Gnome. The following solution solves this problem:
Make sure that the warty universe repository is enabled.
Execute the following commands in a terminal:
1. sudo apt-get install numlockx
2. sudo gedit /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default
3. Add the following lines at the end before the line "exit 0":
4. Put off your numlock and restart X by pressing Ctrl+Alt+BackspaceCode:if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/numlockx ]; then /usr/bin/X11/numlockx on fi
The numlock should be activated now and every time you reboot!!!
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