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Since installing 22.04 a month ago the Onboard Keyboard app has stopped working. This is the very useful onscreen keyboard that lets you enter keystrokes via mouse clicks. Entering sensitive data this way offered a degree of protection against keylogging malware or hackers. With Onboard no longer working, that layer of security is no longer available.

This is evidently a bug of some kind. Does anyone know if it has been recognised as such and whether a fix is in the pipeline?

I should add that although I am familiar with basic Linux commands and using the Terminal, I am not Linux fluent. So answers in plain English please!

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Solved! Onboard crushing issue in Ubuntu!

Just go to menu > preferences > onboard settings > keyboard > advanced > change "input event source" from Xinput to GTK.

N.Ahmed
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There is a bug reported 2017-03-13, that Onboard does not work with Wayland. See the following bug report at Launchpad:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1672465

I suggest that you try again after switching to the classic Xorg instead of Wayland. This link shows a way to switch in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (Onboard works for me in Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS with Xorg.)

Edit: If you want to keep using Wayland, you can try the following alternative:

  • Activate the built-in keyboard (previously Caribou)

    You can do it separately on the log in screen for the log in screen and via

    gnome-control-center
    • Accessibility - Typing - Screen keyboard

    for the desktop.

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sudodus
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To fix the fact that OnBoard does not work, I tried the sudo apt update, followed by sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall and got the result "All the available drivers are already installed". So OnBoard still does not work in my 22.04. Please, are there any other suggestions.

Richard
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