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I'm not sure this is possible, but I thought why not to ask.

I have a laptop without a numeric block, and use it sometimes with external keyboard. Numlock for the internal keyboard = useless, so I never use it.

No numlock for the external keyboard = I press arrows etc instead of numbers by accident.

So, is there any possibility to enable numlock when the laptop starts with the external keyboard, and no numlock with only the internal?

I guess maybe some trickery with lsusb and numlockx?

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  • Looking for exactly the same thing here. This script may be useful; I haven't had the opportunity to test and simplify it yet. Commented Nov 19, 2014 at 9:46
  • @l0b0 I've made that script - will now put it on AUR. Here -> github.com/MightyPork/autonumlock Commented Nov 19, 2014 at 10:30
  • Under which unix variant? Only under X11 (i.e. in the GUI) or also on the console? Commented Nov 19, 2014 at 23:20
  • Think it's solved, my script works fine.. only under X, i don't go to console often (mostly only to kill X when it freezes) Commented Nov 19, 2014 at 23:38

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Ok so I've made a script for that:

It's now also available in AUR as autonumlock-git. Basically loop with lsusb, grep and checking if the device ID is there or not.

Output - numlockx on / off.

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