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Caps/Num lock LED indicators not working in gnome

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – I have a qPad MK-85 mechanical keyboard, and I can't seem to get the LED status indicators for the lock keys to work. The CAPS and NUM lock function still works, but I don't have any indication whether they'r'e on or not.It only seems to be under gnome I have this problem, because they're working just fine in grub, windows, and tty2-6. I have done a search and it seems a lot of other people with mechanical keyboards have the same problem, but no solutions. So.. anyone here have any solutions? vstuen https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=56491 2013-01-0 (HowTos)

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