[Bug 1227173] Re: On every startup Onboard asks for enabling accessibility

[Till Kamppeter]

As I use Onboard as stabdard way to do text input in tablet (=touch-
screen-only) mode the onscreen keyboard is not an accessibility feature
but a facility for all users. This means that it should not require any
special accessibility settings.

I start it with a script which gets triggered by the ACPI signal for the
transition from laptop mode into tablet mode and kill it also by a
script on the ACPI signal of switching from tablet mode to laptop mode.

See the ACPI config files, scripts, and how this all works in bug
1210823.

The command to start Onboard used by the script is

sudo -iu $user onboard &

$user is the user logged in to the desktop and also the variables
DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY are set properly, so that the script which is
running as root can open the keyboard on the user's display and running
as the user.

I have configured Onboard to use auto-hide mode via the GUI
configuration panel of Onboard.

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  On every startup Onboard asks for enabling accessibility

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