Onboard

onboard broken even using snapshot ppa

Asked by Bob Wheater

dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface 'org.onboard.Onboard.Keyboard' on object at path /org/onboard/Onboard/Keyboard

the above error after adding the ppa:

rangerbob@Ubuntu140403-num2:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:onboard/snapshots
[sudo] password for rangerbob:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for rangerbob:
 The purpose of this PPA is to sometimes provide some snapshots of trunk, so that people eager to try new features before they are released can do so. Please, be aware that the packages in this PPA are very likely to have shortcomings, since some things might not be fully implemented.

If you file bugs about problems you encounter with Onboard from the Snapshots PPA, please include the revision number that was used to create the snapshot in your bug description. You can get the revision number by looking at the version string of the snapshot.

By using this PPA, you agree that you are doing it only at your own risk.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/ubuntu/snapshots
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9833jac0/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9833jac0/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key B44EF87D from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp9833jac0/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key B44EF87D: public key "Launchpad PPA for onBoard devel team" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
rangerbob@Ubuntu140403-num2:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/embrosyn/cinnamon/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:7 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release
Ign:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty InRelease
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/onboard/snapshots/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Hit:10 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty Release
Get:13 http://ppa.launchpad.net/onboard/snapshots/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,184 B]
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/onboard/snapshots/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [1,184 B]
Get:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/onboard/snapshots/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [556 B]
Fetched 327 kB in 2s (157 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
rangerbob@Ubuntu140403-num2:~$ onboard
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/onboard", line 36, in <module>
    ob = Onboard()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/Onboard/OnboardGtk.py", line 139, in __init__
    remote.Show(dbus_interface=ServiceOnboardKeyboard.IFACE)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 70, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 145, in __call__
    **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 651, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface 'org.onboard.Onboard.Keyboard' on object at path /org/onboard/Onboard/Keyboard
rangerbob@Ubuntu140403-num2:~$

Do you have a solution for this problem?

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Bob Wheater (bwhea1171) said : 		#1

this is Ubuntu 16.04 LTS upgrade from 14.04

rangerbob@Ubuntu140403-num2:~$ uname -a
Linux Ubuntu140403-num2 4.4.0-83-generic #106-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 26 17:54:43 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Bob Wheater (bwhea1171) said : 		#2

rangerbob@Ubuntu140403-num2:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial

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Francesco Fumanti (frafu) said : 		#3

Hi Bob,

Could you please try to uninstall Onboard and afterwards reinstall it? I wonder whether it has been properly installed.

Moreover, I saw in the transcript above, that you called sudo apt-get update. This command only refreshes the package list; it does not install anything. To have the updates installed, you also have to give the "sudo apt-get upgrade" command. Moreover, there is also the "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" command, that performs even more updates.

Hoping that reinstalling Onboard will solve your problem.

Cheers,

Francesco

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Bob Wheater (bwhea1171) said : 		#4

I uninstalled it and reinstalled onboard. Now it has completely screwed up the Cinnamon desktop-- will not show whole screen at once and mouse pointer jumps around and is hard to control. So I uninstalled again and went back to stable repository but Cinnamon still screwed up in the same manner. I have completely uninstall and reinstalled the Cinnamon desktop but it still is screwed up in the same manner. I switched to unity (which I hate) and the onboard displays properly (multicolor floating keyboard).

I wonder if there was a conflict on Cinnamon with the accessibility keyboard because the onboard behaved like the accessibility keyboard -- appears at the bottom and moves the rest of the screen up-- but the format of the keyboard is different than the accessability keyboard. NOTE: I am using virtual box to run ubuntu on windows host.

Any ideas where to get help on fixing the cinnamon desktop, otherwise I will have to abandon ubuntu.
Thanks.

Regards ,
Bob

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Francesco Fumanti (frafu) said : 		#5

Sorry to hear from all these problems. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with Cinnamon and Onboard, neither have I time to try to replicate your problem in the next two weeks. I assumed you were running plain Ubuntu with Unity.

Have you tried disabling the docking feature in Onboard or other settings? (By googling a bit, I saw that others have problems too, with Onboard on Cinnamon? for example in the Cinnamon section of the linuxmint forum.)

You might find some help in the Ubuntu forums or in more Cinnamon centric forums.

By the way, Ubuntu is dropping Unity for GNOME in the 17.10 release.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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