Won't show on top of Firefox fullscreen.

[Arturo Espinosa]

Hi. I bumped into this problem for a kiosk setup:

I still haven't configured the user's setup for a kiosk; it's still quite vanilla.

Using LUbuntu (Ubuntu with LXDE) 17.04
onboard 1.4.1-0ubuntu1

I LOVE the Dock to screen edge behavior, but it won't work with Firefox in fullscreen mode:

Activate "Dock to screen edge". No matter if you shrink screen area or not.
Switch to Firefox and press F11 to go fullscreen.
If onboard was present, it disappears.
Try to bring onboard on, maybe by clicking on an input if you have auto-show/hide, or bring it up using the onboard icon. It won't come on top of Firefox.
(the onboard icon does just fine btw; stays on top of Firefox in fullscreen, no problem)

OK, now for the workaround:

Disable "Dock to screen edge"
Enable "Force window to top" (this seems to have no effect when screen edge docking is enabled)
Now, go to firefox, fullscreen, and make onboard show and it will show.

Since I want that keyboard stretched to all of the screen's horizontal, I have to resize it by hand.
Then I configured onboard so that no further resizing is possible.

Disadvantage: if you drag onboard around, it won't stick and it will partially overflow. An user would have to be very careful to be able to move the keyboard vertically so that leftmost or rightmost keys are not overflowed.

I have a custom layout, so I removed the "move" button and I have to settle without that feature. The good thing is that onboard moves around whenever an input that would get focus would be obscured by the keyboard.

I think the solution would be to allow the "Force window on top" to take effect even when "Dock to screen edge" is activated.

Also, buttons for horizontal-only and vertical-only movement would add some flexibility.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Thanks for this detailed bug report.

[N. W. (nw9165-3201)]

@frafu: You probably wanted to say:

Thanks for this detailed duplicate:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/326120
https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1458402
https://bugs.launchpad.net/onboard/+bug/1627819