# Numpad keys not working with 5.9.0 RC1
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967 "2020-12-03T11:44:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@Lukasz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lukasz)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/1 "2020-12-03T11:44:20Z")
Since no one else complains about it, this might be system specific. I am unable to type in numbers from the numeric keyboard in 5.9.0 RC1. I can imagine that this is related to the new Qt that comes with Paraview (I am using the Linux binaries from Kitware). I have no such issues in Paraview 5.6.0 and other programs. I found some Qt bug reports on this
> **[\[QTBUG-75523\] Numeric keypad not working on Qt5.12.3 Ubuntu 18.04 - Qt Bug...](https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-75523)**
> **[\[QTBUG-75284\] Numpad not working - Qt Bug Tracker](https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-75284)**
but I am not missing the devel libraries.
My OS:
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/2 "2020-12-03T12:19:29Z")
@ben.boeckel: Any idea for this one ? it may be related to a missing libxbcommon-x11-dev.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/3 "2020-12-03T15:07:45Z")
The CI image has `libxkbcommon-devel` installed, so we build our Qt with it installed. It might be needed on the client though (it was added to the test CI image mid-November).
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### Author:  [@Lukasz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lukasz)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/4 "2020-12-03T16:51:44Z")
The 5.9.0 RC1 binaries are from the beginning of November (06.11). Could that be the issue? I do have `libxkbcommon-devel` installed but perhaps there is some version mismatch or other conflict.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/5 "2020-12-03T16:55:02Z")
Can you try with the RC2 ?
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### Author:  [@Lukasz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lukasz)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/6 "2020-12-03T17:06:55Z")
Unfortunately it’s the same problem with the RC2.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/7 "2020-12-03T17:29:14Z")
Is there any output on the terminal if you run it from there?
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### Author:  [@Lukasz](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Lukasz)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2020, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/8 "2020-12-03T17:52:17Z")
no, nothing on the terminal
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### Author:  [@Galuppo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Galuppo)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/9 "2020-12-22T20:52:57Z")
I had the same problem, and I am using:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
Kernel release: 5.8.0-34-generic
Kernel version: #37~20.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 17 14:53:00 UTC 2020
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2020, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/10 "2020-12-28T20:02:14Z")
Hrm. There’s got to be some plugin missing or something. I don’t see anything relevant though 😕 .
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/11 "2021-01-05T23:26:11Z")
Reported here: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20422](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues/20422)
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### Author:  [@roland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/roland)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/12 "2021-02-08T17:06:01Z")
FYI, I’m experiencing the same issue on Debian Buster (ParaView 5.9.0).
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### Author:  [@Patol75](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Patol75)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/13 "2021-02-12T04:27:44Z")
I am also experiencing the same problem with the final 5.9.0 release on Ubuntu 18.04. Unfortunately, installing both libxkbcommon-dev and libxkbcommon-x11-dev does not resolve the issue. However, one thing I have noticed, which I hope is of potential interest, is that, irrelevant of the NumPad being activated or not, pressing the keys while maintaining Shift yields expected values.
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### Author:  [@roland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/roland)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 9:41am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/14 "2021-02-12T09:41:03Z")
Interesting. I have just tried holding Shift and I need to keep NumLock _off_ to enter numbers. With NumLock _on_ it still doesn’t work for me, even when holding Shift.
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### Author:  [@roland](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/roland)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/15 "2021-02-12T09:44:13Z")
Some further testing. With NumLock _off_ ‘5’ always works, but the other digits need Shift. With NumLock _on_ ‘5’ works only with Shift, the other digits never work.
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### Author:  [@Patty](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Patty)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/16 "2021-03-02T16:06:23Z")
Thank you for mentioning shift key. It works for me. But still have the same issue with fresh downloading paraview5.9.0 on kubuntu 20.04
Best regards
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/numpad-keys-not-working-with-5-9-0-rc1/5967/17 "2021-03-04T15:18:15Z")
This issue was finally tracked down to not having `xkbcommon-x11-devel` in the build image we were using. Unfortunately, Qt is silent about such problems. The fix will be included in 5.9.1.