Spontaneous numlock

[ab1jx]

I don't know, it's not so bad I guess so I'll mark it solved. My numlock is controlled by other keys but that's a matter of having the wrong mapping. If you look in /usr/share/X11 much of it deals with locales and keytboard layouts which are interrelated in strange ways I'm not going to study or try to make sense of. This isn't an off-the-shelf Keytronics or Apple or IBM keyboard. So unless somebody took time to make up a keymap it'll probably always be a little off. My numlock didn't turn itself on, I hit some key that did it, but not the one marked NumLock because that does something different.