2 thoughts on - GNOME, Numeric Keypad & Commas

• Hi,

  Our local school has a 100 % CentOS network on servers and desktops. Until recently, we were using a highly customized Xfce desktop environment. Last week I decided to migrate all desktops from Xfce to GNOME, which went quite well. Now I have to sand down some rough edges.

  The secretary complained that she can’t use the numeric keypad as before. She’s using LibreOffice Calc a lot, and she has to type in a lot of numbers with commas. With Xfce this was not a problem. Under GNOME, this won’t work anymore. As far as I can tell, this has to do with the locale-specific syntax of 0.00 vs 0,00. Our systems are all localized in french.

  Any idea how this can be solved?

  Cheers,

  Niki

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• Hi,

  Our local school has a 100 % CentOS network on servers and desktops. Until recently, we were using a highly customized Xfce desktop environment. Last week I decided to migrate all desktops from Xfce to GNOME, which went quite well. Now I have to sand down some rough edges.

  The secretary complained that she can’t use the numeric keypad as before. She’s using LibreOffice Calc a lot, and she has to type in a lot of numbers with commas. With Xfce this was not a problem. Under GNOME, this won’t work anymore. As far as I can tell, this has to do with the locale-specific syntax of 0.00 vs 0,00. Our systems are all localized in french.

  Any idea how this can be solved?

  Cheers,

  Niki

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  Niki,

  Thank you for your post.  I have just created a hypervisor with kvm and CentOS 7.5, and posted the same keypad problem I thought was related to kvm, but when I checked on my host CentOS 7.5 machine as opposed to the guest machines, the keypad did not work on it either.  Looks like there is a problem with the latest version of gnome3 in CentOS 7.5.

  Greg Ennis