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I tried to activate numlock in the login screen using numlockx. The instruction point me to add this line

greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on

to this file

 /etc/init/lightdm.conf

I tried to reboot. In the boot screen this line was shown.

ERROR: File /etc/init/lightdm.conf: syntax invalid:
init:lightdm.conf:62: Unknown stanza

Which means the added line. What should I do?

Parto
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Probably you edited the wrong file. I have a feeling that you are supposed to add that line to e.g. /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf, which should (at least) contain:

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-setup-script=/usr/bin/numlockx on

Optionally you can use a dedicated file, e.g. /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/numlock.conf, with the same contents.

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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  • There is no file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf indeed, but I decided to create that file and add those lines into it. It works. Also thank you for getting rid of that misleading answer. – CatFly Jul 11 '14 at 13:53