How to lock the position of the floating icon?
I am attempting to use Onboard on a touchscreen kiosk system. I'm using the floating icon to allow the user to show/hide the keyboard, but I find that when I touch the icon I end up moving it more often than I click it on the first try, which is not what I want. Is there any way to use gsettings to fix the floating icon permanently to a position on the screen, disabling the dragging of the window?
I also have a problem when I connect a larger monitor to the kiosk to do maintenance, and then move the icon. When I disconnect the larger monitor, the icon stays at the same absolute position it was at on the large monitor. This means the icon is off-screen and the only way to get it back is to modify gsettings. I think locking the position would solve both problems.
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- English Edit question
- Status:
- Solved
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- Onboard Edit question
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- Solved by:
- Sean Murphy
- Solved:
- 2014-11-14
- Last query:
- 2014-11-14
- Last reply:
- 2014-11-12
marmuta (marmuta) said : | #1 |
Resizing can be blocked easily, in Preferences-
gsettings set org.onboard.
That's the distance in pixels the pointer has to travel before the drag begins, default is -1 for the system's drag&drop threshold. If set high enough it would essentially disallow all movement. It would stop resizing too though, and for both, floating icon and keyboard window, since there's only a single threshold for all drag operations.
The icon getting stuck off-screen is a known problem. A proper fix would probably have to remember positions for all encountered permutations of connected monitors. I'm not sure that will ever be done, though. I guess what we can do, is to make sure the icon at least moves to the edge of the closest visible monitor-area.
In your case, if you don't move the floating icon while the the secondary monitor is connected, does the icon still end up off-screen?
marmuta (marmuta) said : | #2 |
I've extended the resize protection to include window movement. There is still only a course setting in preferences-
To turn off all resizing and movement for the floating icon run
gsettings set org.onboard.
To turn off all resizing and movement for the keyboard window:
gsettings set org.onboard.window window-handles ""
This is only in trunk (rev. 1822) for now, but it will at some point show up in our snapshot PPA at
https:/
Sean Murphy (murph269) said : | #3 |
Great, thanks.