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Ochi

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Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 52

[SOLVED] On-screen keyboard in lightdm doesn't generate keystrokes

Hi,

I'm trying to get the "onboard" on-screen keyboard to work in "lightdm", more specifically the "lightdm-gtk-greeter" since it has little dependencies. By setting "keyboard=onboard" in "/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf", I am able to start onboard through the accessibility menu in lightdm (and this seems to be the key step to set up onboard for lightdm as pointed out in several how-tos). However, pressing buttons in onboard doesn't seem to generate any keystrokes, i.e. I am unable to enter my password. Do I have to configure something else to allow the virtual keyboard to generate keystrokes in the login screen?

onboard version 1.1.1-2
lightdm version 1.14.0-1
lightdm-gtk-greeter version 2.0.0-2

Last edited by Ochi (2015-04-13 17:52:59)

andrew_the_p

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From: BY

Registered: 2015-03-17

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] On-screen keyboard in lightdm doesn't generate keystrokes

Use the same launchpad branch to install lightdm-gtk-greeter as described in this bug (PKGBUILD provided):
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/43999

This is known bug, but 2.0.1 version is delayed a bit.

Last edited by andrew_the_p (2015-04-12 16:40:32)

Ochi

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Registered: 2010-04-06

Posts: 52

Re: [SOLVED] On-screen keyboard in lightdm doesn't generate keystrokes

It works, very nice! Thank you.