I hate numlock. I have 'enable numlock on boot' disabled in BIOS. When I boot to windows, numlock is not on. When I boot into Linux and sit at the login screen, numlock is not on. When I enter my password and enter i3, numlock is on. Case-insensitive grep for 'num' in .i3/config is empty. What's going on?
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1What distribution are you running? What display manager are you logging into? If you select a different session type, is numlock turned on? – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' May 18 '16 at 21:19
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I am so interested to know what you use scoll lock for if you have a full size keyboard, since there are dedicated arrow keys, home/del/pageup/page down keys right next to it. I wish scroll lock never existed. – run_the_race Aug 04 '22 at 09:45
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Since you did not specify much details about your system there's not much to go on.
I would recommend to download "numlockx", since I don't know which distro you are using I can't tell you how, but you should know how to install applications...
When numlockx is installed, just type this into your i3config:
exec_always --no-startup-id numlockx off
I hope that solved your issue.
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Yep, that's what I did a month ago when I had this issue, and it solved it. – Ken - Enough about Monica Jun 13 '16 at 22:11
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1Thank you! I had the exact opposite problem (needing to enable numlock each time) and it solved it as well – Miku Dec 15 '20 at 11:45