Onscreen Keyboard cannot be used to input password in unity-greeter

Could you check if this works in unity-greeter 0.2.0 (in Ubuntu 12.04)? Thanks.

This was not anymore an issue for me for some time (I even forgot about it in the meantime). But after the update of unity-greeter to 0.2.0 today, the issue is back.

I now reenabled auto-login to work around the issue. I am running the precise development version.

Version 0.2.0-0ubuntu4 in precise still has the problem.

I got marked duplicate, didn't realize it was already here. But yeah, effects me on 12.04 alpha. (Testing on extra tablet)

Same here, unity-greeter 0.2.0-0ubuntu4, Ubuntu 12.04.
When onboard is shown, neither typing with the osk nor with a hardware keyboard has any effect.

Version 0.2.1-0ubuntu1 in precise also has the problem.

Still an issue in precise and 0.2.4

This problem persists even with the newer version (0.2.4-0ubuntu1) of unity-greeter. My "precise" machine was updated until Feb, 24th 11UT.

I noted that it worked for me during the alpha1 stage but stopped working after some point at alpha2. And for now, after using the virtual keyboard, the cursor inside the field that we type the password just disappears (it stops blinking, no visual "ready/wait signal" for input).

If we do not use onboard inside lightdm, the field works as it should.

The cursor dissapears for me too. Moreover, I also noticed that if 'Onscreen keyboard' is selected in lightdm then the 'physical' keyboard doesn't seem to work, I press keys in my usb keyboard but nothing seems to happen.

This bug makes ubuntu precise unusable without a physical keyboard (unless autologin in on). In my opinion it is not a medium importance bug, it's critical or high.

This bug still exists as of Beta 1... Please fix this before final release. Please.

i'm on armel tablet (12.04) and onboard comparition on assistive tecnology request in lightdm, just makes dissapear the prompt in the password field.. once onboard is put down, prompt re-becomes available in the field.

Got the same problem on my i7 rig running Precise Beta 1 fully updated as of March 19 2012. It was a nice feature when doing reboot for a rig that does not have or need a keyboard. The workaround is to enable auto login but a bit of googling show that this bug been poping out on more than a few releases. :(

Assigning to Robert, he said on the merge proposal to merge this next week.

Just installed beta 2. Bug is confirmed. I had to plug in a keyboard to login. On-screen failed.

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 0.2.7-0ubuntu1

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unity-greeter (0.2.7-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream bug-fix release
    - "Pressing escape key on lightdm greeter restarts xserver"
      (LP: #962932)
    - "unity-greeter crashed with SIGSEGV in background_loader_ready_cb"
      (LP: #946674)
    - "Onscreen Keyboard cannot be used to input password in
      unity-greeter" (LP: #878184)
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:50:50 -0400

The version 0.2.7-0ubuntu1 worked like a charm. :). Thank you.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/878184