Monday, June 16, 2008

Num key restarts/kills Gnome session

If you have upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, and are facing this annoying issue where you press a num key and it restarts/kills your gnome session - you will have to do the following steps to get rid of the issue

In Gnome Menu -

1) System
2) Preferences
3) Keyboard (Tab: Mouse Keys)
4) Uncheck (Allow to control pointer using the keyboard).

Via Ubuntu Bugs