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

[Francesco Fumanti]

** Description changed:

+ The bug has been solved for Unity-2D, GNOME shell and GNOME Classic, but
+ is still available in Unity.
+ 
+ Ways to unmaximize Onboard in Unity are: 
+ - double clicking the top bar
+ - Alt+drag
+ - Alt-right click
+ 
+ The original bug description was: 
+ ---------------------------------
+ 
  If you maximize the onboard keyboard with the launcher set to dodge
  windows, the onboard keyboard takes over the desktop and, you can no
  longer do anything other than use the session menu to log out.
  
  This is because the onboard keyboard window buttons (close, minimize,
  maximize) no longer appear (since the global menu is used for the window
  with focus) and because the onboard keyboard is always drawn over other
  windows. So even if you alt-tab to switch focus to another window, you
  cannot see it. I didn't try the 'show desktop' keyboard shortcut, but
  even if it makes the keyboard disappear I suspect that most users won't
  be aware of it so they'll just think that something has crashed.
  
  See attached image for an example. The keyboard is maximized and the
  global menu shows the currently focused application, so there is no way
  to un-maximize the keyboard.
  
  If the launcher is set to never hide, you can at least use its 'quit'
  function to kill the onboard keyboard.
  
  Perhaps the onboard keyboard should never be allowed to be maximized, so
  that it always has a titlebar and can therefore always be moved.
  
  Why does the keyboard always run at startup, anyway? It isn't in the
  startup applications, so how do I disable it? Or is Oneiric trying to be
  a tablet-only OS?
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: onboard 0.95.1-0ubuntu3
  Uname: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-git-20110923.0546 x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Sep 26 08:40:57 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
-  LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
-  PATH=(custom, no user)
-  LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
+  PATH=(custom, no user)
+  LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: onboard
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Changed in: onboard
       Status: In Progress => Confirmed

** Summary changed:

- full-screen onboard keyboard commandeers entire desktop
+ Unable to unmaximize Onboard in Unity

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