LinuxCommandLibrary

numlockx

Control the number lock key status in X11 sessions.

TLDR

Show the current number lock status

$ numlockx status
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Turn the number lock on
$ numlockx on
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Turn the number lock off
$ numlockx off
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Toggle the current state
$ numlockx toggle
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SYNOPSIS

numlockx [on|off|toggle|status]

DESCRIPTION

numlockx is a program to control the NumLock key inside X11 session scripts.

OPTIONS

on

Turn NumLock on

off

Turn NumLock off

toggle

Toggle NumLock to opposite status

status

Gets the NumLock status

--help

Display help

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Chris Jones <chris@black-sun.co.uk> and Michal Cihar <nijel@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

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