Raspberry pi: set numlock at boot

2022/02/14

On my new pi laptop (to be described in a later post) it always boots to console without numlock. I would prefer numlock to be ON always.

> Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Working directory /home/pi/Dev/

Script setNumLockOn

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

Service setNumlock.service


[Service] WorkingDirectory = /home/pi/Dev ExecStart= bash -c "/home/pi/Dev/setNumlockOn"

[Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Copy service to the right location:

sudo cp setNumlock.service /etc/systemd/system/ Start it:

sudo systemctl start setNumlock.service Set to run at boot:

sudo systemctl enable setNumlock.service

Reboot and confirm that it works.