How do I enable Scroll Lock?

Posted by Anton Ciprian Vasilache on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Anton Ciprian Vasilache
Published on 2012-04-28T18:01:40Z Indexed on 2012/07/02 3:24 UTC
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I need to enable scroll lock so I can toggle lights on my keyboard. This works on Arch.Funny thing it doesn't work on Ubuntu.

http://linuxtechie.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/getting-scroll-lock-to-work-in-ubuntu/

$ xmodmap -e ‘add mod3 = Scroll_Lock’
xmodmap:  unknown command on line commandline:1
xmodmap:  unable to open file 'mod3' for reading
xmodmap:  unable to open file '=' for reading
xmodmap:  unable to open file 'Scroll_Lock’' for reading
xmodmap:  4 errors encountered, aborting.

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