Hello, I picked up an old tablet. The Durabook R11AH and I’m having some issues getting Onboard to work on Xubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
What I’ve done so far is install three packages. onboard zenity lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings
At first Onboard liked to crash so I found the zenity pkg which let me switch Input event source from XInput to GTK. This fixed the immediate instability.
Now I need to access Onboard from the lock screen which I have tried two different ways using onboard -e through Settings → Xfce Screensaver → Lock Screen → On Screen Keyboard → On screen keyboard command:
Also through LightDM GTK Greeter: settings → Misc. → Accessibility, Keyboard, onboard -e, Enable at start.
In both scenarios the keyboard does pop up but behaves like I never switched XInput to GTK. Does nothing, then onboard crashes.
What I think is happening is root is launching onboard using onboard -e like I instructed but the program isn’t reading the config file I setup under my user and falls back on all the defaults that do not work.
I’ve been digging around through things like the man pages and am trying to locate the config file to see if I can change certain parameters so even if root is launching the application it reads the config I want it to launch with not the defaults but I’m having a difficult time understanding where the file is and what I need to edit.
Optionally if I can just modify onboard -e to specify Input event source=GTK that might fix it too but I don’t know the syntax and the man pages aren’t helping…
Any thoughts? I’d really like to turn this tablet into a little portable entertainment and productivity device if we can get this working. Alternatively I will have no choice but to remove the password login requirement because nothing else has been working.