disable dangerous keyboard jogging!

Enable NumLock on the numpad.
The main issue is NumLock is not active after installing Linux, it has to be activated after installation, after that it remains ON until manually disabled.
Also some motherboards have a setting in BIOS that enables NumLock to be on all the time.
I used that "feature" to use small numeric keyboards as MPG, disable numlock=jog and homing active.
Can you do a quick test and see if that works, please?
Thank you and my regards to TurBoos and KCJ ... LJC ... ???
P.S.
Look at the num pad, there are arrows there on 2,4,6,8 and home and pgup/pgdn, so those small keyboards are really nice as MPG for anything 3 axis.

spumco wrote:

Even better, disable all keyboard LCNC functions.  No estop, machine-on/off, MDI enter-key, etc.  Keyboard would only be used for data entry (gcode editor, filling fields, etc.)

That is hard to do on equipment that was designed with keyboard input as the only means, the PC, that is.
Still, see below.

spumco wrote:

This would also solve Lcvette's concern without resorting to a separate program to hack the numlock status.

No need for any program, Linux remembers the first time it is activated and never ever de-activates it unless user disables it.
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The easiest solution would be to use "mechanical" keyboards, those come in all flavors and can be tailor made to whatever needs and can be programmed accordingly. Pretty hefty price, though.
Cheaper solution but more involved is using arduino nano/uno/any with any type of small keyboards as arduino can be programmed as a HID ddevice.
And Linux being Linux, there is always a solution for every possible need/want, so this has some info on how to do just that, granted in our case here would need someone actually writing a script that runs on startup, but has both for Xwindow and Wayland:
superuser.com/questions/775785/how-to-di...-key-in-linux-ubuntu
This is a bit more specific to our needs
askubuntu.com/questions/1290401/how-do-i...ard-except-for-three

Ok, what if you run that script to disable keys when starting LinuxCNC and running the other script to enable the keys when LinuxCNC exits?
That should also be easy to do, if no other program is used while LinuxCNC is running, so editing a gcode in a text editor will not work.