Onboard instead of Caribou - how?
Hi,
I would like to have onboard start instead of Gnome keyboard. I read this https:/
Caribou pops up now and then, and also Onboard does not autostart even though I have /etc/xdg/
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Onboard
Exec=onboard --not-show-
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
X-Ubuntu-
AutostartCondit
X-GNOME-
OnlyShowIn=
This is the default that is installed with the package.
Please let me know what I have to change to substitute Caribou with Onboard and make it autostart both on login screen and inside my session.
Question information
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- Onboard Edit question
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- Solved by:
- Dmitry Sutyagin
- Solved:
- 2016-02-18
- Last query:
- 2016-02-18
- Last reply:
- 2016-02-18
| marmuta (marmuta) said : | #1 |
Thanks for your interest in Onboard.
Onboard does not autostart in GNOME Shell on purpose - in order to not interfere with their built-in keyboard. If you want Onboard to autostart when GNOME's "Screen Keyboard" setting is turned on, then remove "--not-
I haven't tried to run Onboard in GDM myself, but reportedly it still does. See
https:/
For the rest, by popular request, I'm working on a shell extension that will hopefully allow for better integration into GNOME Shell.
https:/
It's in its earliest stages, though. Nothing to show yet.
| Dmitry Sutyagin (dsutyagin) said : | #2 |
Thank you for the answer. I have removed that line and now onboard launches well when I login. But it is still missing on login screen.
I think this is because login uses Wayland and not X. I will try to switch login screen to X and see if this makes onboard start there.
| Dmitry Sutyagin (dsutyagin) said : | #3 |
I have disabled Wayland by editing /etc/gdm/
I have checked through another tty that is is actually running, but it is not visible. I thought that maybe the settings are auto-hide by default and added and extra .desktop file to launch onboard-settings. This did not help because settings window is also not visible, even though the process is running. I am open to any suggestions.
| marmuta (marmuta) said : | #4 |
start-minimized and auto-show should be off by default, that's probably not it. It might crash on something, maybe there's no D-Bus session bus. Trunk is more resilient in the regard, I worked on that just recently. Same with onboard-settings.
I'll try myself to get it to run, but it'll probably be late at night today.
| marmuta (marmuta) said : | #5 |
Tried it and no success here either. I'll see if I can debug this another time. The worst case would be if only clutter actors can be shown in GDM, like in activities. We'll see.
| Boris Burkov (vasjaforutube) said : | #6 |
Dima, to autostart Onboard on greeter/login screen, try creating a .desktop file for Onboard in:
/usr/share/
And removing caribou-antler desktop file. This will make (unstyled, but still functional) Onboard appear on your greeter/login screen, so that you'll be able to enter your password. This worked for me on Debian 7.
It was quite painful to get rid of caribou-antler, though. I just deleted its .service file in dbus configuration: /usr/share/dbus-1/ (services or system-services, can't recall).
| Dmitry Sutyagin (dsutyagin) said : | #7 |
Boris, thanks for the guide. I have tried it on my Arch and it did not work - after I have removed the caribou .service files from /usr/share/
Anyways, I gave up getting onboard on login screen since I only need to enter my password there and forget about it, and for the main session I have found what looks like the best solution - https:/
