Comment 43 for bug 192508

I just found out what probably causes it for me. This is silly. and slightly
embarassing.

In keyboard preferences > layouts > kb layout options > caps lock key
behaviour
I had caps lock behavior set to "caps lock toggles Shift so all keys are
affected".
This is not the default setting (although I can't remember changing it).
As a result pressing the numlock key while caps lock was enabled in effect
triggers a shift+numlock which enables mousekeys.
Setting the caps lock key behaviour back to default ensures that numlock
only enables/disables numlock even with capslock enabled (as you'd expect).
This almost certainly solved it for me.

The link with VNC/RDP here -for me at least, is probably just the fact that
I use capslock on the remote machine.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:19 PM, John <email address hidden> wrote:

> ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #530993
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530993
>
> ** Also affects: vino via
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530993
> Importance: Unknown
> Status: Unknown
>
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> mouse keys turns on randomly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192508
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