OnboardOSK

which package for on screen keyboard

Asked by Bodinux

Hello,

I would like to write a bug report for the on screen keyboard available at login or in the accessibility options.

What package is it related to ?

neither of the following packages is installed on my system :
*onboard
*gnome-shell-extension-onboard

Thanks

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Best Francesco Fumanti (frafu) said : 		#1

Hi,

Thanks for your interest in Onboard.

Unfortunately, Onboard is not compatible to Wayland and only moderately compatible to GNOME3.

As it was quite difficult, if not impossible, to make Onboard compatible to Wayland and GNOME 3, a rewrite of Onboard was started under the name of OnboardOSK.

However, I don't know at what state the development of OnboardOSK is; I am even wondering whether it is still being developed.

Have a nice day.

PS: As far as I know, the currently official onscreen keyboard of Ubuntu is Caribou. (I am aware, that it does not currently offer all the features Onboard is offering. That's one of the reasons I am still using the Unity desktop on Ubuntu 18.04.)

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Bodinux (bodinux) said : 		#2

Le 23. 05. 18 à 19:37, Francesco Fumanti a écrit :
> Your question #669491 on OnboardOSK changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/onboardosk/+question/669491
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> Francesco Fumanti proposed the following answer:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your interest in Onboard.
>
> Unfortunately, Onboard is not compatible to Wayland and only moderately
> compatible to GNOME3.
>
> As it was quite difficult, if not impossible, to make Onboard compatible
> to Wayland and GNOME 3, a rewrite of Onboard was started under the name
> of OnboardOSK.
>
> However, I don't know at what state the development of OnboardOSK is; I
> am even wondering whether it is still being developed.
>
> Have a nice day.
>
> PS: As far as I know, the currently official onscreen keyboard of Ubuntu
> is Caribou. (I am aware, that it does not currently offer all the
> features Onboard is offering. That's one of the reasons I am still using
> the Unity desktop on Ubuntu 18.04.)
>
 Thanks,

Tired of the bugs of gdm3 (errors on login and bad keyboard layout
management), I switched back to Unity yesterday. Everything is working
again.

Bodinux

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Bodinux (bodinux) said : 		#3

Thanks Francesco Fumanti, that solved my question.

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David Rosky (drosky) said : 		#4

Hi Everyone,

I'm just curious if anyone does know the state of this project. I am not an Ubuntu user but I use onboard (original) on gnome 3 in OpenSuse, despite its imperfect integration. I must stick with Xorg for now to use it, but that's fine.

The lack of a decent split keyboard layout makes the default gnome 3 OSK (Caribou) absolutely useless on larger 2-in-1s for anything other than entering a small handful of characters. I have created a split layout in onboard and this makes a 13" 2-in-1 actually usable in tablet mode.

I sincerely hope this project hasn't died. IMHO, it should replace Caribou as the default OSK in Gnome 3.

Regards,
David