GNOME 50 - gdm and numlock

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Hi,

does anybody experiencing issue with saving of numlock state in GDM greeter after recent upgrade to GNOME 50 at Tumbleweed?

Previously (up to 49.x) it was working as intended and according to dconf values under key
org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.keyboard with remember-numlock-state=true
Eg. out of box you just set numlock on at login screen and the choice is remembered and persists across reboots. All with Wayland.

This doesn’t work anymore. It never saves the state nor it will recall it. I tried several forcing methods (setting dconf values with state for root or gdm user), but to no avail.
I tried to completely reset dconf key to default and recreate db from scratch, but that also didn’t help.
Finally I spawned a new VM with clean current Tumbleweed installation. There are some setup differences compared to my main rolling system, like there are two accounts: gdm, gdm-greeter with ephemeral home dir, and gdm runs under this gdm-greeter account, there is gdm service compared to display-manager etc. But there is still the same issue.

I initially thought about upstream issue, but I’ve checked also GNOME OS (Nightly GNOME) and Fedora 44 beta (same 50.0 upstream source as in Tumbleweed), but there it all works properly.

So before filling a proper bug-report I’d like to check with some fellow Tumbleweed users.

Thanks,
Michal

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Yes, having the same issue and tried the same you did.
I can remember it was working, at least for GNOME 48, so I think there might be a regression going on or something.

But, for me, it’s not that important so I can live without.

Cheers

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Confirming that it does not work currently. Never tried before so cannot tell if that is a regression.
The state in dconf is saved correctly.

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I can also confirm that it isn’t working. Tried fiddling in dconf editor, but wasn’t able to solve issue. Can also confirm that it did work in gnome 49.

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I appreciate your reports and the confirmation.
I’ve noticed it right after the update, as I always use my numlock and I immediately messed my password… :slight_smile:
I just needed to find, whether this is upstream or distro bug.

Filled over there:
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1262175

Thank you all.

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