Make Shift+Numpad act as Home/End Keys

[raphaelr]

In Ubuntu used to be a keyboard option called "Make Shift+NumPad work like MS Windows" or something. It allowed me to press for example Shift+NumPad 7 and it would get registered as the "Home" key. Without that option the shift key acts like a temporary NumLock and it'll pick up a "7" instead.

My regular Home/End keys are somewhat out of reach, so I wonder where the setting is in XFCE. I'm using the latest XUbuntu 11.04.

[raphaelr]

After some grepping I found the solution: You need to add the numpad:microsoft option to the XkbOptions. On older Ubuntus, do that in your xorg.conf. On newer ones open the file /etc/default/keyboard and change this line:

XKBOPTIONS=""

to

XKBOPTIONS="numpad:microsoft"

Save and reboot (restarting X doesn't seem to work, at least not with RAlt+PrintScreen+K).

[nixahn]

Thanks for this. This is a usual need for laptops, how would one go about suggesting the feature to be accessible from the settings configurator that comes with xfce? is it already there and I couldn't find it?

[PT PinGuy]

I install a derivation of Ubuntu 12.04 and I have the same issue.

This solution works for me.

Thanks.