08-28-2017, 02:10 PM
Hi Jerry,
Thanks for your reply. "Numlock is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Have the system enable it at login and you have people question your motives, have it disabled, the same effect. Either way, one side will not be happy." Well I take your point, but this is not an instance of one or another as you claim. It is an instance of the supposed facilities in the OS not setting the numlock option to what the user prefers and selects, and indeed in the case of laptops and some desktop PCs distorting the keyboard so as not to permit log in with some alpha characters, so as to always enforce numlock ON whatever the user does, selects or wishes.
I have never met this situation in any other OS so this is clearly a one-off OS problem. My point is that although I have now installed Linux Lite on 4 desktop PCs and on one laptop they all then have the same problem. The supposed facilities in Linux Lite to give an option of numlock OFF if that is what the user prefers do not work; and always ultimately despite these settings Linux Lite always boots up with numlock ON. That to me suggests a bug associated with the supposed option settings, which do not work. What is the point of having these supposed setting options if they do not work?
I have just thought of an outside chance. What if I set the BIOS option to numlock ON? Linux Lite might then reset it to numlock OFF as selected in the all available options?
Thanks for your reply. "Numlock is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't. Have the system enable it at login and you have people question your motives, have it disabled, the same effect. Either way, one side will not be happy." Well I take your point, but this is not an instance of one or another as you claim. It is an instance of the supposed facilities in the OS not setting the numlock option to what the user prefers and selects, and indeed in the case of laptops and some desktop PCs distorting the keyboard so as not to permit log in with some alpha characters, so as to always enforce numlock ON whatever the user does, selects or wishes.
I have never met this situation in any other OS so this is clearly a one-off OS problem. My point is that although I have now installed Linux Lite on 4 desktop PCs and on one laptop they all then have the same problem. The supposed facilities in Linux Lite to give an option of numlock OFF if that is what the user prefers do not work; and always ultimately despite these settings Linux Lite always boots up with numlock ON. That to me suggests a bug associated with the supposed option settings, which do not work. What is the point of having these supposed setting options if they do not work?
I have just thought of an outside chance. What if I set the BIOS option to numlock ON? Linux Lite might then reset it to numlock OFF as selected in the all available options?