I'm not familiar with Cinnamon, but it should be possible to enable your Scroll Lock key.

First, we need to see if you have a spare keyboard modifier slot. Run:

xmodmap -pm

That will print a list of your current modifier setup. Hopefully, one of those lines won't have any keys listed; generally that will be mod3. Assuming that's the case, you can enable Scroll Lock with this command:

xmodmap -e "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock"

Your Scroll Lock LED should now respond to Scroll Lock key presses.

If that works, you probably want X to do that automatically whenever it starts. There are various ways to do that: it can be done on a per user basis, but for something like this I think it makes sense for it to be set globally.

But I've never done this before myself, so I'd better test it before giving further details. :)

Ok. The method I tried to activate that modmap globally doesn't work for me on KDE. :( But activating it in my home directory seems to work ok.

Create a file called .Xmodmap in your home directory containing this line:

add mod3 = Scroll_Lock

The easiest way to do that is

cd ~ echo >.Xmodmap "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock" 

Now restart X (logout & login again). Hopefully, your Scroll Lock key will be working. If it doesn't, please let me know.

I'm not familiar with Cinnamon, but it should be possible to enable your Scroll Lock key.

First, we need to see if you have a spare keyboard modifier slot. Run:

xmodmap -pm 

That will print a list of your current modifier setup. Hopefully, one of those lines won't have any keys listed; generally that will be mod3. Assuming that's the case, you can enable Scroll Lock with this command:

xmodmap -e "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock" 

Your Scroll Lock LED should now respond to Scroll Lock key presses.

If that works, you probably want X to do that automatically whenever it starts. There are various ways to do that: it can be done on a per user basis, but for something like this I think it makes sense for it to be set globally.

But I've never done this before myself, so I'd better test it before giving further details. :)

OK. The method I tried to activate that modmap globally doesn't work for me on KDE. :( But activating it in my home directory seems to work OK.

Create a file called .Xmodmap in your home directory containing this line:

add mod3 = Scroll_Lock 

The easiest way to do that is:

cd ~ echo >.Xmodmap "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock" 

Now restart X (logout & login again). Hopefully, your Scroll Lock key will be working. If it doesn't, please let me know.

I'm not familiar with Cinnamon, but it should be possible to enable your Scroll Lock key.

First, we need to see if you have a spare keyboard modifier slot. Run:

xmodmap -pm

That will print a list of your current modifier setup. Hopefully, one of those lines won't have any keys listed; generally that will be mod3. Assuming that's the case, you can enable Scroll Lock with this command:

xmodmap -e "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock"

Your Scroll Lock LED should now respond to Scroll Lock key presses.

If that works, you probably want X to do that automatically whenever it starts. There are various ways to do that: it can be done on a per user basis, but for something like this I think it makes sense for it to be set globally.

But I've never done this before myself, so I'd better test it before giving further details. :)

I'm not familiar with Cinnamon, but it should be possible to enable your Scroll Lock key.

First, we need to see if you have a spare keyboard modifier slot. Run:

xmodmap -pm

That will print a list of your current modifier setup. Hopefully, one of those lines won't have any keys listed; generally that will be mod3. Assuming that's the case, you can enable Scroll Lock with this command:

xmodmap -e "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock"

Your Scroll Lock LED should now respond to Scroll Lock key presses.

If that works, you probably want X to do that automatically whenever it starts. There are various ways to do that: it can be done on a per user basis, but for something like this I think it makes sense for it to be set globally.

But I've never done this before myself, so I'd better test it before giving further details. :)

Ok. The method I tried to activate that modmap globally doesn't work for me on KDE. :( But activating it in my home directory seems to work ok.

Create a file called .Xmodmap in your home directory containing this line:

add mod3 = Scroll_Lock

The easiest way to do that is

cd ~ echo >.Xmodmap "add mod3 = Scroll_Lock" 

Now restart X (logout & login again). Hopefully, your Scroll Lock key will be working. If it doesn't, please let me know.