I am attempting to pair an Apple Magic Keyboard 1 to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on an MSI GS65 Stealth.
I followed the procedure outlined in this post:
I used sudo bluetoothctl and was able to trust and pair with the keyboard and get the pairing successful message. I rebooted and checked paired-devices in bluetoothctl and the keyboard is indeed listed.
However, the laptop still doesn't seem to respond to typing on the wireless keyboard. Any advice on how I can solve/debug this issue?
I have looked at the following questions but they either seem involve issues with pairing not working at all (as opposed to the paired keyboard just not working) or different versions of ubuntu/linux.
How to make my Bluetooth keyboard work with Ubuntu 18.04?
Apple keyboard a1016, pairing fails
Apple Magic Keyboard 2, not working properly over bluetooth (16.10)
Bluetooth keyboard paired but not responding 16.04
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I got the same problem in Feb. 2020, with Ubuntu 18.04 and Apple Magic Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard.
TL;DR: When Apple Magic Keyboard connected, it automatically activates the Num Lock mode. One needs to press / disable the Num Lock key (although there is no such key on the Magic Wireless Keyboard, and that was the trick in my case).
The output of bluetoothctl seemed fine:
Device MY:IP:AD:DR:ES: Name: Apple Wireless Keyboard Alias: Apple Wireless Keyboard Class: 0x00002540 Icon: input-keyboard Paired: yes Trusted: yes Blocked: no Connected: yes LegacyPairing: yes UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) Modalias: usb:v05ACp0255d0050 RSSI: -52I was not able to type on Apple keyboard, but I noticed that when I typed letters I got digits m > 0, j > 1, k -> 2 and so on. This seems that Numlock or numpad was activated when the keyboard was connected.
Indeed, check it with the Settings > Region & Language > Input Sources and press the Keyboard icon ().
I saw that Num Lock was active:
So, I plugged in another keyboard with a Num Lock key, and pressed the Num Lock on that keyboard. Since then, the Apple Magic Keyboard is working normally.
If anybody knows how to generate a Num Lock key event on the system without pressing the key on another keyboard, the script or command would be helpful.
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