pop-up box gets in the way

[Leonard Sitongia]

I find that applications which have pop-up suggestions, for example the search text box in Firefox, gets in the way of typing on the virtual keyboard. Each keystroke clears the pop-up, then I have to repeat the character to get it into the box, and then the pop-up comes back. So, I need to type each character twice.

I'd blame the application, but this comes up so much that there should be a way to handle this in onboard. Continuing the example of Firefox, I can turn off search suggestions, but there's still a pop-up for the search engine to use and the search I'm currently doing.

Mint 17.3 Xfce on HP Slate 500.

Thanks for your time.

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Setting the Input event source to XInput should solve the problem.

You can find that option in the Advanced tab of the Keyboard section in the Preferences dialog of Onboard.

[Leonard Sitongia (sitongia)]

Thank you, Francesco. Looks like that option is on by default.

I suppose another way to think of this is that, even though the option to "Force window to the top" is set, the Firefox pop-up menu is on top of the onboard keyboard.

I've turned off as much of Firefox's pop-ups as I can, and I think that will have to be the best I can do.