On-screen keyboard is unavailable at login

[Jacob Opstad]

I am using linux mint cinnamon 17.2.
I have a hardware problem in my keyboard and need to use the on-screen keyboard for certain keys. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a way to get the on-screen keyboard on the login or lock screen.

[Carlos S (carlossanchezlopez)]

I installed Linux Mint Sarah in a tablet PC. I cannot login unless I connect an external keyboard, because there is no Accessibility button in the login screen to enable the screen keyboard.

A workaround is to disable the login screen, and disable locking the tablet when it is inactive. This is unnecessarily unsafe.

This is a very bad accessibility issue.

If there was a way to detect "Tablet mode" and make the screen keyboard automatically show up, not only Linux Mint would benefit, but also Ubuntu and all related distros and flavors.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

I'm setting this bug to "Incomplete" as it's not seen any activity for some time. If this is still an issue when using a maintained release of Ubuntu then please let us know otherwise this bug report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

No reply to comment #2 so closing.