On 2024-06-15, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > On Saturday, 15 June 2024 19:20:26 BST Alan Grimes wrote: >> A number of my softwarez requires the use of the arrow keys and can't >> use the numpad in edit mode to work around it. So who do I need to kill >> to get arrow keys to work in x11 again? > > I don't understand what is the "edit mode" you refer to. There > ought to be a NumLock key to enable/disable the numeric pad. Also, > your DE would have some config GUI for enabling/disabling the > numlock.
I don't read Mr. Grimes postings, but if the question is how to control the numlock state. The Xorg config file option XkbOptions can be used to turn numlock on/off. There's also the numlockx command-line utility to do the same. Most of the options described here can be modified to turn numlock off instead of on: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Activating_numlock_on_bootup
