Further debugging on #ubuntu-devel has revealed that gnome-settings- daemon listens for numlock keypresses (by listening for every key event) and sets the gconf key.
I have also discovered that, snooping with xev, I see a KeyPress event for num lock when the state is off (i.e. when turning num lock on) but NOT when turning it off. This may point to an xkeyboard-config issue... -- ACPI brightness events no longer work on ThinkPad T61 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280646 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs