[email protected] writes:
> I was using the laptop and suddenly I noticed that some keys were
> putting numbers on the monitor.
Witness my psychic powers of deduction:
You turned numlock on. The keys were u, i, o, j, k and l, yeah?
[...]
> I had inadvertently hit the Num Lock key whilst typing.
Oh. You already worked that out. I am sorry you had to go through all
that. That really sucks.
FWIW, on machines without hardware displays of the lock status I tend to
run the applet that comes with me desktop environment which shows them
in software.
Regards,
Daniel
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