How to turn on/turn off leds by terminal?

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Published on 2012-06-16T00:32:42Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 9:18 UTC
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I would like turn on/turn off some of my leds running a command on linux.

I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I tried

xset led named "Scroll Lock"
xset led named "Num Lock"
xset led 2             (this is the number of Scroll Lock as `xset q` says)
xset led 1

but nothing works.

Tried

setleds +num
setleds +scroll

but I got a error message saying Error reading the current settings of flags. Maybe you're not on the console? (I was in a terminal).

So, how can I perform this?

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