Comment 0 for bug 859288

If you maximize the onboard keyboard with the launcher set to dodge windows, the onboard keyboard takes over the desktop and, you can no longer do anything other than use the session menu to log out.

This is because the onboard keyboard window buttons (close, minimize, maximize) no longer appear (since the global menu is used for the window with focus) and because the onboard keyboard is always drawn over other windows. So even if you alt-tab to switch focus to another window, you cannot see it. I didn't try the 'show desktop' keyboard shortcut, but even if it makes the keyboard disappear I suspect that most users won't be aware of it so they'll just think that something has crashed.

See attached image for an example. The keyboard is maximized and the global menu shows the currently focused application, so there is no way to un-maximize the keyboard.

If the launcher is set to never hide, you can at least use its 'quit' function to kill the onboard keyboard.

Perhaps the onboard keyboard should never be allowed to be maximized, so that it always has a titlebar and can therefore always be moved.

Why does the keyboard always run at startup, anyway? It isn't in the startup applications, so how do I disable it? Or is Oneiric trying to be a tablet-only OS?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: onboard 0.95.1-0ubuntu3
Uname: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-git-20110923.0546 x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 26 08:40:57 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110901)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: onboard
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)