Why is the numeric keypad on my standard keyboard not working with KDE?
I start up my Slackware 12 and boot into a console window in which I can use the numeric keypad with gay abandon (no, I'm not gay, it's just a manner of speaking ), but when I run startx and I'm in KDE, it does not matter what I do with the num lock key or the KDE Control Centre, I cannot access the numbers on the keypad!
This is most frustrating as I use(d to use) the keypad all the time!

It's as if those keys were disabled, yet I'm sure that:
1) I had the numeric keypad working when I first started KDE after installing Slackware 12
2) I did not touch the xorg.conf keyboard section at all (just the video and mouse)
3) The problem seemed to rear its ugly head after I had used the KDE Control Centre for the first time.

Relevant information (that I can think of):

It's a standard US keyboard, defined as such to both Linux and KDE.
setxkbmap -print:
xkb_keymap {
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwerty)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compat { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc+us" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };

XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "us", "", ""

xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

KDE has its own keyboard settings. In the Control Center, look at Regional&Accessibility -> Keyboard Layouts and see if it's correctly defined.

If that fails, just erase the ~/.kde dir and start all over, this time a lot more carefull!

I'm sorry about the inordinately long delay, but I've been away and could not log in.
Could you please explain what you mean?
As I understand it, there's a heck of a lot of stuff under .kde, and I don't know what would happen if I followed your instructions, except maybe I'd have to re-install KDE.

Would you mind being more specific?

Thanks for your help

No, you don't have to reinstall KDE, but all of your settings etc. will vanish. If you want to try, I recommend you to simply rename/move ~./kde as a backup.

Now to your problem: I'm sorry if this sounds stupid, but is your Num Lock turned on? I think mine wasn't by default. You can change it in KControl, Peripherals->Keyboard->NumLock on KDE Startup.

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I understand that a lot will vanish, thank you for your reply, but I wonder what I will need to do to recreate those settings.Will I need to simply use KDE Control Center or is there something more I need to do?

In response to your question, if you see my original post, I have tried using Control Center and, of course, toggled the Num Lock key, but I cannot get those keypad numbers to appear in any input field under KDE, although they work fine in a console.

Regards,

@Slack1_more
move the directory or rename it to something else.
Next time when You log in to KDE, the whole directory (.kde) residing in Your home will be recreated.
.kde directory contains Your bookmarks, passwords, remembered input-fields and settings. Your Mail should be elsewhere (check in kmail if You use it). And documents should be elsewhere too .
The only risk in deleting said .kde is contained in posting success thus closing this thread

Thank you
I had the same problem which made me suffer a lot.

Now after deleting the ~/.kde components, abd re-logged in again, everything went the way I want
and the Num keyboard is working and typing numbers.

thank you