Force [NumLock] On Boot Of RetroPie?

challenger2010

This is an old thread, but I needed to figure out how to do this with Stretch. Below is what I found, but I have not tried it yet:

To turn Numlock on at startup (on Raspbian Stretch) :
sudo apt-get install numlockx

sudo nano /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf
At the end, add

greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on
Save. Reboot. Yer Done.

mitu

@challenger2010 said in Force [NumLock] On Boot Of RetroPie?:

greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on
Save. Reboot. Yer Done.

Not really, RetroPie doesn't come with an X environment, what you posted works only when starting an X session from LightDM.

jonnykesh

@mitu @challenger2010 If you are booting into the command line interface then this should work.

Optionally Boot with Numlock On

To aid use of the menu, add a line of code to the keyboard configuration file to enable Numlock in the terminal when the Pi first boots.

Open the config file:

sudo nano /etc/kbd/config

Locate and uncomment the following entry by removing the # from the start of the line (or create the line if it is not present), then save the changes:

LEDS=+num

Please note that the Raspbian desktop will still default to switching Numlock off; whilst there is a utility available, numlockx, to address this, it causes (harmless) errors to be displayed in the console.

This is an extract from this tutorial https://retroresolution.com/2016/04/19/multipurpose-raspberry-pi-part-2-adding-a-menu-to-access-retropie-kodi-and-the-raspbian-desktop/#li_numlock_on

EDIT* So... like everybody above the recent post said, then.

challenger2010

The etc/kbd/config is empty with Strech.

mitu

@challenger2010 Well, yes, that folder is no longer present. Use the setleds command to toggle the Num/Caps/ScrollLock on/off, which you can add to the your ~/.bashrc.

jonnykesh

@mitu I'm out of date. What's new?
I've never personally used it but it shows how out of touch I am.
Yes, it is gone.

jonnykesh

@mitu

that folder

From now on I'm just going to say directory.
There is no such thing as a "folder" in Linux.
It might look like one but it's not.

challenger2010

Sooo....this didn’t work for Stretch :(. If anyone knows how, please help me out. When I am in any of the Retropie menu screens, pushing numlock on the keyboard doesn’t work either.

Thanks :)

mitu

@challenger2010 As I said, earlier, use the setleds to toggle the numlock. Add the lines below to /etc/rc.local:

INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8]
for tty in $INITTY; do
    setleds -D +num < $tty
done

challenger2010

Thanks, that worked...but not for the emulator I am using. lr-o2em will not start a game with keypad numbers, only keyboard numbers. Strange, I hit F4 and tried the keypad and yes it produces numbers now. No clue why this is happening.