Guys, honestly I can't believe no one's paying attention to this bug. I mean... it's the most basic input device and it's been working correctly for decades, and now it can't emit the freaking desired symbol?!? I find no words to describe how much frustration this bug keeps causing to me even after months of trying to get used to it: it occurs dozens of times daily that I try to type a number but instead it moves the cursor around, so I have to undo the cursor movement, press numlock twice and then retype the digits. Complete disaster!! You spend tremendous effort in coming up with the perfect desktop system including Unity and whatnot eye candy, but you ignore the very essentials like a working keyboard?? I swear twm with a properly functioning numlock would be more user-friendly.
This bug is a deal breaker for me. It's been three months since I reported it, and no action yet. I'll wait patiently for another two months trying hard not to jump out of the window from the anger this problem causes me, and then upgrade to the very first stable release of 14.04. If it's still not fixed there I'm sorry but I'm going to immediately switch to another distribution. (Not that you care too much about it apparently :( ) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247668 Title: NumLock turned off on layout switch Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Extracting from bug 1218322, confirmed there by multiple users: When switching the keyboard layout using a shortcut (such as Alt+Shift), NumLock functionality is (mostly) turned off. More precisely: it goes into an inconsistent state where pressing numpad 5 inserts the digit 5, but the other numpad keys move the cursor. Pressing the NumLock key turns it off completely (pressing numpad 5 no longer does anything), and pressing once again turns it on. This means that if someone prefers to have the NumLock functionality switched on all the time, they have to press the NumLock key twice after each layout change. I find this a huge usability problem. (I don't have a LED, so I cannot tell how that one is lit.) The bug is not present when changing the layout via the indicator applet. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Nov 3 21:54:37 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-30 (522 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-12 (21 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/1247668/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
