Transparency all the time

[taka k.]

An option to have transparency on all the time (rather than only when no pointer is over onboard) would be great, especially for tablets where screen real estate is in high demand. The ability to see what you are typing underneath the keyboard would be great. Even experienced typists could perhaps have very-low or complete transparency once they get used to onboard's layout.

[Aaron Christianson (ninjaaron)]

CompizConfig Settings Manager>Opacity, Brightness and Saturation>Opacity>Window specific setting

Click new. Type "title=onboard." Set your opacity.

Done.

[Jan-Åke Larsson (jalar)]

If possible, add this directly in onboard.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello scar, or anyone else affected,

Accepted onboard into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I can confirm that this bug was fixed in the oneiric-proposed version.

TEST CASE:
1. Click the button in the bottom right of onboard
2. Click the wrench button to start Onboard Preferences.
3. Switch to the Window tab and set your desire Transparency percentage. There is a separate dial for transparency when inative.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 0.96.1-0ubuntu1

---------------
onboard (0.96.1-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New bugfix release (LP: #880085)
  * Make the Hover Click also work in the Unity Greeter
  * Add some shortcuts to the Preferences dialog
  * Fix the return key of the scanning layout (LP: #877385)
  * Fix black corner issue when auto-starting in unity (LP: #877604)
  * Fix starting of the Preferences of Onboard in the LiveCD (LP: #877592)
  * Improve handling of gsettings events (LP: #877601)
  * Silently embed into gnome-screen-saver if no app did so (LP: #857813)
  * Remove redundant hook check
  * Remove unused pictures
  * Make a few small visual adjustments
  * Improve or fix some tooltips and key names
  * Add Gerd to AUTHORS file and order the names alphabetically
  * Merge translations from the Ubuntu translators from the 22-10-2011
  * debian/patches: update onboard-defaults.conf file

onboard (0.96.0-0ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Feature Freeze exception request (LP: #872374)
  * Uses gobject introspection (GTK3), (LP: #858988)
  * Uses gsettings rather than gconf (LP: #801208)
  * Show on new lock screen (LP: #857813)
  * Make Caps Lock stick on single click, (LP: #68716)
  * Use dh_python2 (LP: #788514)
  * Make Caps Lock stick on single click (LP: #68716)
  * Add a hide button (LP: #564040 , LP: #584119)
  * Add options for transparency of the onscreen keyboard window (LP: #643204)
  * Add option to use a window without decoration
  * Add tooltips to some keys of Onboard
  * Add option to force Onboard window to top (work around bug 739812)
  * Add possibility to differentiate snippets with custom labels
  * Add buttons to control the hover click eature provided by the system
  * Enhance the layout creation with parts that are visible on all layer
  * Reworked the layouts and renamed Classic Onboard layout to Compact layout
  * Many other little fixes and adjustments (details in commits on launchpad)
  * debian/control:
      Build-Depends: add python-all-dev, libgtk-3-dev, libxi-dev, libxtst-dev
                     remove libxi6
      Depends: add ${shlibs:Depends}, python-dbus, gir1.2-gtk-3.0,
                   gir1.2-pango-1.0 (>= 1.29.3), gir1.2-glib-2.0,
                   gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0, libgtk-3-0, libxtst6
               remove python-gtk2, python-gconf, python-gobject, libx11-6
  * debian/copyright: add Gerd Kohlberger to the list of authors
  * debian/rules: uncomment clean target
  * debian/patches: update onboard-defaults.conf file
                    remove onboard_autostart.patch
  * debian: remove outdated README.source file
 -- Francesco Fumanti <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:10:54 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 0.96.1-0ubuntu0.1

---------------
onboard (0.96.1-0ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * New bugfix release (LP: #880085)
  * Make the Hover Click also work in the Unity Greeter
  * Add some shortcuts to the Preferences dialog
  * Fix the return key of the scanning layout (LP: #877385)
  * Fix black corner issue when auto-starting in unity (LP: #877604)
  * Fix starting of the Preferences of Onboard in the LiveCD (LP: #877592)
  * Improve handling of gsettings events (LP: #877601)
  * Silently embed into gnome-screen-saver if no app did so (LP: #857813)
  * Remove redundant hook check
  * Remove unused pictures
  * Make a few small visual adjustments
  * Improve or fix some tooltips and key names
  * Add Gerd to AUTHORS file and order the names alphabetically
  * Merge translations from the Ubuntu translators from the 22-10-2011
  * debian/patches: update onboard-defaults.conf file

onboard (0.96.0-0ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Feature Freeze exception request (LP: #872374)
  * Uses gobject introspection (GTK3), (LP: #858988)
  * Uses gsettings rather than gconf (LP: #801208)
  * Show on new lock screen (LP: #857813)
  * Make Caps Lock stick on single click, (LP: #68716)
  * Use dh_python2 (LP: #788514)
  * Make Caps Lock stick on single click (LP: #68716)
  * Add a hide button (LP: #564040 , LP: #584119)
  * Add options for transparency of the onscreen keyboard window (LP: #643204)
  * Add option to use a window without decoration
  * Add tooltips to some keys of Onboard
  * Add option to force Onboard window to top (work around bug 739812)
  * Add possibility to differentiate snippets with custom labels
  * Add buttons to control the hover click eature provided by the system
  * Enhance the layout creation with parts that are visible on all layer
  * Reworked the layouts and renamed Classic Onboard layout to Compact layout
  * Many other little fixes and adjustments (details in commits on launchpad)
  * debian/control:
      Build-Depends: add python-all-dev, libgtk-3-dev, libxi-dev, libxtst-dev
                     remove libxi6
      Depends: add ${shlibs:Depends}, python-dbus, gir1.2-gtk-3.0,
                   gir1.2-pango-1.0 (>= 1.29.3), gir1.2-glib-2.0,
                   gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0, libgtk-3-0, libxtst6
               remove python-gtk2, python-gconf, python-gobject, libx11-6
  * debian/copyright: add Gerd Kohlberger to the list of authors
  * debian/rules: uncomment clean target
  * debian/patches: update onboard-defaults.conf file
                    remove onboard_autostart.patch
  * debian: remove outdated README.source file
 -- Francesco Fumanti <email address hidden> Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:10:54 +0200