Comments on: Getting Scroll Lock to Work in Ubuntu

By: Irondrake

Irondrake — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 04:16:35 +0000

This also fixed my issue on Red Hat 5

very niche! Thank you!

By: qzjul

qzjul — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:46:53 +0000

The xmodmap solution is not working for me in 12.04 now =( worked in 8.04;

The scroll lock light *is* fixed, but the toggling of the light doesn’t trigger the KVM for some reason; works fine on my 8.04 and windows boxes though…

By: livinjean

livinjean — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:54:48 +0000

I know I am pretty late to the party, but here are my 2 cents.

In my archbang setup the xmodmap solution did not work, but installing numlockx and creating a numlockx on/off script did the trick.

The numlockx solution is listed here (check comment #2) ,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11789416

By: wyatt8740

wyatt8740 — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:57:21 +0000

Still works as of Ubuntu 12.04. Just sayin’

By: freyverres

freyverres — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:11:34 +0000

Still works for me in Ubuntu 11.10. Awesome. Thanks!

By: ricky

ricky — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:28:29 +0000

Thanks, had a new keyboard for xmas, thought the led light for the scroll-lock was damaged.

Followed your instructions on Arch Linux, worked as expected…. many thanks!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:32:22 +0000

This is great – a fantastic tutorial as have been having problems with NumLock and CapsLock – it works in Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. When 10.04 first came out – all was working fine but since it was first released the CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock all disappeared! Very bizarre! Anyway this is a great way to fix it as I thought it was my keyboard (been using the Microsoft wired keyboard 500 and the Acer keyboard – both set up as generic layout with using Generic 105-key (Intl) PC keyboard.

Many thanks for your help.

By: Jon Q

Jon Q — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:04:00 +0000

Doesn’t work in Knoppix – it “looks” like it works, there’s no error in the terminal, and xmodmap -pm returns as it should (with mod3 being set to scroll lock), but scroll lock still doesn’t actually work.

Very frustrating.

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:36:20 +0000

Oh, wow. You are a genius! I have an LED backlit keyboard that will only light up if the Scroll Lock is pressed. Your’re a life saver!

So why isn’t the scroll lock enabled in the first place? It seems like this would be something pretty standard, wouldn’t it?