GDM3 Enable NumLock on boot, before login

[ponasm]

Hey. I have had trouble trying to enable NumLock on boot.
I use Gnome Display Manager. I have numlockx installed and tried placing

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/usr/bin/numlockx on

in /etc/rc.local (which resulted in error opening display. Then I tried placing it in /etc/gdm3/Init/Default, just to find out it doesn't even get executed at boot. After trying few more things I finally came up with the solution: I installed lightdm and placed

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

in /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/01_debian.conf. I finally got my numlock enabled on boot, but the lightdm greeter is horrible and would like to get it working on GDM.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

The ArchWiki suggests ~/.xprofile but I think ~/.profile is the one for Debian:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac ... up#Console

That won't work before login though, for obvious reasons, so perhaps try https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac ... up#Console?

Disclaimer: all untested, I don't run a display manager

[ponasm]

Thanks. I created a service and did some tests to see if it gets executed before login, and yes it does, but my numlock for some reason is still disabled. I also tried changing this piece of code:

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for tty in /dev/tty{1..6}
do
    /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < "$tty";
done

to

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/usr/bin/numlockx on

(which worked on lightdm conf.d file)
but it also doesn't seem to work.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Sorry, my first link was wrong:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ac ... Bootup#GDM