Comment 12 for bug 859288

Here is a work around that should work also for pointer only users; but if you are running Onboard 0.96.x, you also need a second onscreen keyboard; for Onboard up to 0.95.x included, a second onscreen keyboard is not necessary.

Steps to perform:

- Close Onboard; for example by using its indicator icon.

- Open one of your disks and navigate to /usr/bin

- If you are using Onboard 0.96.x, open the dconf-editor; if you are using a previous version of Onboard, open the gconf-editor. (I hope them to be installed on your system, because they are not installed by default.)

- In the dconf-editor\gconf-editor search for the entry containing the height of Onboard. (Onboard can be found under apps.)

- Reduce the height of the Onboard window. In the gconf-editor, you can use the spinning wheels to do so; in the dconf-editor, you need a second (onscreen) keyboard to do so.

Onboard will use the reduced height on its next start.

Remark about message 11 from Rocko: Onboard stores its dimensions when it is quit. Thus, if you kill Onboard before quitting it, it will restart with the dimensions used before the maximization; however, if you quitted Onboard in its maximized state, it has stored the values of the maximized window in its settings, and killing it will not help anymore. In that case, you will have to manually reduce its dimensions by using the dconf-editor or gconf-editor (depending on the version of Onboard used).