Onboard randomly sets as default in login screen

[Carlos Soriano Sánchez]

The onboard randomly is set to default when unlocking the screen.
I can't reproduce the bug. It's happens to me twice times, in different contexts.
Each time I have to go to onboard settings and unclick "show onboard when unlokcing the screen".
Also, in askubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/84050/how-do-i-disable-the-on-screen-keyboard-in-the-unlock-screen
The user indicates that " I'm not sure how I activated these settings in the first place though" and I'm sure that is the same issue that happens to me.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 22 14:39:46 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Carlos Soriano Sánchez (carlos-soriano89)]

it's only happens to me in gnome-shell, not in unity, so I report this bug to gnome-shell. Please, take it into acccount.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Carlos Soriano Sánchez (carlos-soriano89)]

User told me that it happens also in unity, so I changed to onboard package.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Thanks for the bug report. Yes, Ubuntu's Onboard adds itself to the login screen on startup. There is bug #938302 for this already, however, having it happen twice to the original poster may be a sign of something else going on.

Questions, Carlos:
When you say it happened twice, in different contexts, what contexts were this?
There are two workarounds listed in the link to askubuntu.com, did you always use the GUI method?

- The GUI method, turning off "Show Onboard when unlocking the screen", would be the most effective one - Onboard should not try to add itself to gnome-screensaver again. You can do the same from command line:
$ gsettings set apps.onboard xembed-onboard false

- The linked command line method
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver embedded-keyboard-enabled false
only keeps Onboard away until it is started the next time. Better use the first method.

[Carlos Soriano Sánchez (carlos-soriano89)]

Marmuta:
With "different" context I mean that it happens without specific action. One time I was navigating internet, and the other time I was programming.
BUT, the first time I'm sure that I click on onboard program accidentally and I closed it. The next time I got the onboard in the gnome lock screen. Then I disable it in the GUI settings.
The second time I don't remember if accidentally click on onboard accidentally, but i'm pretty sure I didn't open onboard program.

I used GUI method twice to disable the onboard.

Since then (date of the bug report) I don't get the error again.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Ok thanks. The code seems ok, or at least I didn't immediately spot something suspicious. Perhaps keep an eye on this issue and if it happens again, maybe we can reconstruct what happened. The fix for bug #938302 will probably hide this one, though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[zasran (erik-zasran)]

I use Unity and have the same problem. Not sure if it's relevant but at some point I had keyboard not working and I turned on virtual screen in lightdm (login screen) and in Unity as well.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Yes zaaran, unfortunately that's the expected behavior after running Onboard once in Precise, see bug #938302. This shouldn't happen anymore starting with v0.97.1 (in Quantal).

[marmuta (marmuta)]

I'll close this bug for Onboard, there were no more complaints after the fix for bug #938302. Please reopen it if you are still affected.
I believe, since the unlock dialog is part of gnome-screensaver, lightdm/unity-greeter/gdm were never involved.

[marmuta (marmuta)]

Please, someone change the status for gdm to 'Invalid' too. Launchpad doesn't let me.