if you enable onscreen keyboard and then login/logout, onscreen stays checked but will not load automatically

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I cannot repro this in test-mode, but it certainly happens under normal usage.

Odd, onboard is running, just not being shown.

One other small issue I noticed with the greeter is the theme of the keyboard changes back to Ambiance when I log off. If I set the theme to Droid or something else in preferences it will always return to Ambiance in greeter. It is pretty minor but inconsistent. When the keyboard appears it should probably check the preferences config and apply those changes for the greeter also.

Mark,

How do you set the theme of the keyboard? It is not obvious to me.

From the indicator on the panel Preferences -> Theme or from the keyboard click the Snippets key in lower right and then click the Preferences button with the wrench and screwdriver icon.

Mark,

Since I just did a MP to fix this, please file a separate bug on the theme issue and please include a screen cap if you can. The wrench/screwdriver icon for me is unclickable.

Quite some time ago, the Ubuntu developers patched Onboard for security reasons to not open the preferences dialog under the display manager. As we integrated that patch into the following releases of Onboard, the wrench does not work by design under the display manager.

@ marmuta (who is coding Onboard and who is probably watching this thread; otherwise, I will contact him directly in a few days)

What about hiding the wrench when Onboard is running under the display manager instead of simply disabling it? This way, people would not think it to be broken.

Moreover, what about adding the option "Apply the theme changes also to the login screen" in the Preferences dialog tab about the themes? I am aware, that it should be called with root privileges, but I think that it should be feasible. The main difficulty might be to do it for the various display managers that are available. But again, we could make that new option available only for determined display managers.

I have created a separate bug for the theme issue containing my idea about adding an additional option to the Preferences dialog in the desktop session in order to apply the change to the login screen. If you have a better idea about how to solve the problem, please let us know.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1019590

Fixed in unity-greeter 12.10.1

This bug was fixed in the package unity-greeter - 12.10.2-0ubuntu1

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unity-greeter (12.10.2-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Robert Ancell ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Show network indicator (bug 1042757, but currently disabled)
    - Add support for remote logins (bug 1040221, but currently disabled)
    - Show onboard keyboard on startup if enabled already (LP: #973922)
    - Support multiple simultaneous prompts from PAM (LP: #1043593)
    - Fix tabbing through widgets sometimes taking too many tabs
    - Set average background colour atom based on background (LP: #1043572)
    - Add a man page
    - Finess UI (LP: #932162)

  [ Michael Terry ]
  * debian/unity-greeter.pkla, debian/install:
    - Install a policykit authentication file to disallow any mucking
      with NetworkManager in anticipation of adding NM to the greeter.
  * debian/control:
    - Require lightdm 1.3.3
  * debian/patches/01_disable_remote_login.patch,
  * debian/patches/02_disable_nm_applet.patch:
    - Disable a couple features until their FFes are approved.
 -- Michael Terry <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:14:17 -0400