The letter is missing from the "h" key

[Pat McGowan]

Use the keyboard anywhere in the system
The key for lowercase "h" is blank.
This is on vivid

[Gustavo Pichorim Boiko (boiko)]

After some restarts here, it switched from "h" to uppercase "E" being missing.
Tried many different layouts and most of them reproduce the issue.

The problem only happens when maliit-server is started using upstart. If I stop maliit-server and start it manually, the problem does not happen.

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

Possibly something up with the font rendering on arale, it's not currently reproducible on other devices. It also doesn't occur on arale if maliit is started directly from the terminal, only when starting through its upstart job.

It'd be handy if someone with an arale device could add "env" to their maliit upstart job "/usr/share/upstart/sessions/maliit-server.conf" and list the output.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

I flashed 106 earlier today, and I have all the letters including "h"

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

putting back to confirmed due to recent dupes

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This has been cited more in recent days, also on mako

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

According to mfrey, it's quite easy to reproduce on Arale.
It happens when switching from uppercase H (which is visible) to lowercase then it disappears. Or you can see it all the time in webbrowser app, where the key is lowercase by default.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

Did some debugging with Elleo.

I found two ways that seem to make the h key reliably work, both by modifying:
/usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/ubuntu/keys/key_constants.js

and then "restart maliit-server"

1) change fontFamily from "Ubuntu Medium"; to "Ubuntu"
2) change fontSize from "2.5" to "2.4"

interestingly, increasing the font size, I tried 3.0 and 4.0 the h key still works, so the problem does not seem to be that the font won't fit. Seems only fontSize at 2.5 with Ubuntu Medium font family causes it. Changing either makes it work.

I don't notice any difference visually when changing the fontFamily to "Ubuntu" - looks the exact same to me. So unless we have a more scientific way to fix this, I'd vote for making that change.

[Bill Filler (bfiller)]

forgot to metion that changing fontBold from false to true also makes the problem go away reliably

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-keyboard - 0.99.trunk.phablet2+15.04.20150326-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-keyboard (0.99.trunk.phablet2+15.04.20150326-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Bill Filler ]
  * change fontFamily to Ubuntu to work around disappearing "h" key (LP:
    #1421812)

  [ CI Train Bot ]
  * New rebuild forced.

  [ Michael Sheldon ]
  * Avoid reporting false visibility signal during startup (LP:
    #1436076, #1419814)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:40:49 +0000