Public bug reported:
I cannot figure a specific package to report this bug on - it is
something to do with keyboards so I just chose keyboard-configuration as
a package was required.
The issue is I have two keyboards attached - a USB keyboard (in case of
problems at boot) and an Apple bluetooth keyboard for main use (but
cannot be used at boot - my hardware does not have inbuilt bluetooth its
a usb dongle).
After doing some messing with keys the Apple keyboard began reporting 123 for
JKL which I found is something to do with numlock (Apple keyboards do not have
a numlock key - the USB keyboard does).
Then I discovered both keyboards were doing this.
I also discovered this seems to be a Wayland issue in that using default
Wayland display manager at login had this issue but using XFCE with Xorg did
not.
Also the login screen sometimes was affected by this sometimes not ie I could
login OK but then typing in terminal windows was affected and sometimes the
login window was affected by the numlock issue.
After discovering all about numlock finally determined that if I set
numlock on the USB keyboard the Apple keyboard was also affected - and
if I turn it off on the USB keyboard the Apple keyboard is restored to
normal working.
It does not seem to me to be valid behaviour that numlock on one keyboard
affects all keyboards - in particular when the other keyboard does not have
numlock capability.
Its also does not seem right that Xorg and Wayland show different behaviours.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.10
Package: keyboard-configuration 1.237ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.17.0-14.14-generic 6.17.9
Uname: Linux 6.17.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.33.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Feb 18 11:39:21 2026
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: console-setup
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to questing on 2025-10-29 (112 days ago)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug questing wayland-session
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multiple keyboards numlock on one keyboard affects all keyboards
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