[Bug 859288] Re: full-screen onboard keyboard commandeers entire desktop

Francesco Fumanti francesco.fumanti at gmx.net
Sat Oct 22 13:18:13 UTC 2011


Here is a work around that should work also for pointer only users; but
if you are running Onboard 0.96.x, you also need a second onscreen
keyboard; for Onboard up to 0.95.x included, a second onscreen keyboard
is not necessary.

Steps to perform:

- Close Onboard; for example by using its indicator icon.

- Open one of your disks and navigate to /usr/bin

- If you are using Onboard 0.96.x, open the dconf-editor; if you are
using a previous version of Onboard, open the gconf-editor. (I hope them
to be installed on your system, because they are not installed by
default.)

- In the dconf-editor\gconf-editor search for the entry containing the
height of Onboard. (Onboard can be found under apps.)

- Reduce the height of the Onboard window. In the gconf-editor, you can
use the spinning wheels to do so; in the dconf-editor, you need a second
(onscreen) keyboard to do so.

Onboard will use the reduced height on its next start.

Remark about message 11 from Rocko: Onboard stores its dimensions when
it is quit. Thus, if you kill Onboard before quitting it, it will
restart with the dimensions used before the maximization; however, if
you quitted Onboard in its maximized state, it has stored the values of
the maximized window in its settings, and killing it will not help
anymore. In that case, you will have to manually reduce its dimensions
by using the dconf-editor or gconf-editor (depending on the version of
Onboard used).

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