Firefox awesomebar suggestions hide Onboard

[Alessio "Spinus" Moscatello]

As you can see in the attachment if you start typing something in the awesome bar, its suggestions hide Onboard.

Note: I've enaled Onboard setting "force window to top", so I think that every kind of windows, menubar, tooltip should stay beneath Onboard...

I'm using Oneiric.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thank you for the bug report, Alessio. This is a know issue with firefox and Onboard (and other on-screen keyboards). If I had a way to fix this I would, but at the moment all I can suggest is to either keep Onboard far enough away from the popup or to disable the pop-up all together:

In firefox go to about:config and set
browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled = False

If someone comes up with a creative fix we'll be all over it, but better don't hold your breath. Sorry.

The tool-tip of the option explains that force-to-top is _trying_ to stay above anything. Unfortunately the window manager has the last say. Perhaps we should make that clearer.

[Alessio "Spinus" Moscatello (spinus)]

Thank you for the clarification, actually I don't use very much the screen keyboard, but I was doing some "experiments" and I've noticed this bug...however (maybe is a stupid solution, but maybe it works for user that are using compiz) it isn't possible to create a "top layer" in compiz and stick the Onboard screen to it? Something like a widget...

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've checked the widget layer plugin out but it doesn't appear to help. Many problems:

- The widget layer plugin is compiz only
  (Onboard tries to run under compiz, mutter, metacity (kwm))
- The plugin is not installed by default
- compiz-plugins-extra is in universe, not main
- In my tries It doesn't help, awesome-popup and context menus still overlap onboard in widget mode

If you have other ideas, just post them.

[David López (david-lopez-upct)]

Epiphany browser has the same problem. As firefox and epiphany browsers also suffer #905636 maybe both bugs are related. Wish this helps.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Not a duplicate of bug #905636, unfortunately.