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To simplify things for you, I am uploading a custom layout from my...

Hello,

Have you tried to reinstall onboard and python-virtkey with the Synaptic Package Manager?

Have you tried to use a layout stored in your home directory instead of letting onboard create...

You can start onboard by command line by passing it parameter for its size, its location on the screen. You can also pass it a file with a custom layout...

Please, type the following in the...

Open the menu System->Preferences->Assistive Technology and put a checkmark into the "Password dialog as normal windows" option.

This will solve the problem for the gksu password dialog. (For...

Hello bcw,

There is no mailing list about onboard, that I know about.

I think that the developer of onboard sometimes looks into this forum.

Finally, onboard is hosted on launchpad, where...

@jsmth

Feel free to ask if you have further questions.

Francesco

I suppose you mean the "Personalise..." button. It creates a copy of the current layout and gives it the name that you typed in. The window that asks for the name remains stuck also in my kde...

Hello,

I have an ubuntu installation where I afterwards installed the complete kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop. onboard seems to run fine when I choose the kubuntu environment (I only tested...

If you are going to make it start in the same state that it closed, I wonder what happens to the users that have set it to appear at the login screen!?

Will they see onboard at the login screen...

Hello TheGuv,

Please, have a look at this post; it might help.

Francesco

@osarusan

I think that it is not possible to make it start in minimised form. Consequently, I filed a "request for enhancement" bug against onboard to ask for the option.

Francesco

Hello,

These are not direct replies to your questions, but I hope it will nevertheless be helpful, so that you will be able to create your personal loyout:
Do you know these three webpages:
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I have just upgraded my system to edgy and the repeating of the of the letters that I wrote about in a previous message does not happen anymore. (I am still using vnc and tested it shortly with...

@t0rtois3

It does it also in gedit, in the modal dialogue box asking for the admin password, in the find box of the synaptic package manager,...

I have found something interesting: when I type...

I am not able to type with onboard in the modal dialogbox asking for the admin password (for example when opening the Update Manager).

Is this normal?
(onboard on Dapper)

frafu

Yesterday I downloaded the new version (onboard_0.85_all.deb virtkey_0.41_i386.deb) from here and they installed without error.

Then I double clicked on the installed onboard file; I got the...

Hello pucasso,

Thanks for your reply, and particularly for telling me about the problems of nx in edgy. In fact, being a newbie in linux, I opted for nx because they offer both an nx server for...

Is there a way to upgrade to edgy without losing my configuration of nfs, ssh, nx, wol, vnc?

By the way, why the restriction to edgy?

Thanks in advance.

frafu

Hello,

I have finally got (with much delay) a CeleronBox with Ubuntu (Dapper Desktop i386) and wanted to try onboard. Unfortunately, I am not able to install the python2.4-virtkey-041.deb...

Hello,

As far as I know, Word prediction/completion is planned for the second stage: see "deferred features" on this page.

Unfortunately, I am not able to help you with the macros.

frafu

You are probably making a good point when saying that the shift-modifier is more often used than the alt- and ctrl-modifier. So only using a general action for the shift could be really more...

In fact, I thought at first to leave the user the choice of what modifier it should replace: user customizable in the settings.

Now I wonder, why not expand the idea: for example moveup before...

Hello,

In the thread titled "GOK alternative" of this "Accessibility Talk" Forum I read about another onscreen keyboard called xvkbd. I went to the homepage of xvkbd and learned about a feature...

Though I am not interested in games, I wonder whether you considered them?

By the way, thanks for the explanation.

frafu