Chris Moates’ adventures in the land of Mox

I’m not sure if it is a GNOME default or an Ubuntu default, but in the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty alpha, my numeric keypad was not working. Further examination showed that it was working perfectly, as an alternate mouse movement device. That’s not nearly as useful to me. Thankfully, reading a little bit led me to find the System->Preferences->Keyboard applet. In the “Mouse Keys” tab, there’s a checkbox for “Pointer can be controlled using the keypad.”

I unchecked this and voila, I have a working numeric keypad again. Posted in hopes of saving other people the same grief.

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