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I'm running Ubuntu in a VMWare player and whenever my mouse crosses into or out of the VMWare window, a Num Lock On or Off notifier briefly appears underneath it. It's very distracting. How do I remove this? Or how do I just change the num lock status in Ubuntu so that it matches the num lock on the host computer (which will hopefully result in suppression of the popup)?

Here is a video of the problem:

http://screencast.com/t/izygXvk2T

I have a small mac keyboard on my PC and I'll admit I have no clue how or where numlock is on it, either.

For completeness, it's Win 7, Ubuntu 13.04, VMWare player 5.0.2 build-1031769

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I think the short answer is that you can't directly sync the host and guest environments regarding Num Lock.

However, a couple of alternatives are available:

  1. As noted in Rudolph's comment link, change the VM BIOS setting to enable/disable Num Lock at boot in the VM to match the hosts default
  2. Manually set the state of guest Num Lock to match the host
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