Comment 6 for bug 938302

True, "Typing assistant" toggles toolkit-accessibility too, so no checking for this switch? I guess this would collide with onboard being fully functional as an independent application too.

If we stay independent of the switch, the external solution, i.e. patching gnome-settings-daemon to toggle embedded-keyboard-enabled, isn't useful either.

So what's left is looking for a running instance of Onboard. If there is none, onboard shuts down early when xembedding. The exception being in unity-greeter to keep onboard in the login screen. We'd need to test for unreliable RUNNING_UNDER_GDM, meaning this bug would be fixed except when running off the live-cd.