onboard seg fault through nx

[frafu]

Hello,

I have a remote celeronbox with onboard on it.

When I launch onboard on the desktop forwarded with vnc, there is no problem.

However when I launch onboard on the desktop forwarded with nx from nomachine, nothing happens: onboard does not appear. So I tried launching it in the terminal, and I get the following:


frafu@UbuntuDesktop:~$ onboard
Error getting keyboard geometry info.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
frafu@UbuntuDesktop:~$ onboard &
[1] 19420
frafu@UbuntuDesktop:~$ Error getting keyboard geometry info.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[1]+ Exit 139 onboard
frafum@UbuntuDesktop:~$


This problem already was present in dapper; yesterday I upgraded to edgy and the problem is still there.

In this forum, there is another thread that might be related. Here it is. (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=270457)

If I can do anything to narrow down the problem, don't hesitate to ask.

frafu

[t0rtois3]

The problem is when onboard tries to get your keyboard layout from the xserver. NX runs the xserver in an odd way in order to work. A possible work around would be to run onboard on the machine locally or over vnc, open the settings dialog and click personalise layout. onboard then creates a new layout identical to your current one. Select that and then run onboard in NX.

Onboard reads the layout from a file this way and shouldn't try to ask the xserver for it.

There might be other problems though. I'll try and test and hopefully debug it some time.

[frafu]

Hello,

Thanks for the workaround: I copied the layout with vnc as you suggested and now onboard starts up also in nx.

frafu