Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gdm
The new GDM (GDM > 2.26) offers an Accessibility Dialog to start
different assistive tools, among others an onscreen keyboard.
By default, GDM is configured to start the onscreen keyboard GOK.
However, GOK is not shipped with Ubuntu; the onscreen keyboard named
onboard is shipped with Ubuntu. So GDM should be configured to launch
onboard instead of GOK when the user activates the onscreen keyboard in
the Accessibility Dialog of GDM.
To change the configuration of GDM from GOK to onboard the following has to be
done:
- Remove the gok.desktop file from the autostart directory of GDM; under Ubuntu
it is: /usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/
- Add a desktop file for onboard to the autostart directory of GDM (where we
just removed the gok.desktop file). The desktop file for onboard has to contain
a specific AutostartCondition in order to link it to the
screen_keyboard_enabled gconf key that is controlled by the onscreen keyboard
item of the Accessibility Dialog of GDM. You can find an onboard.desktop file
with the correct AutostartCondition attached to this bug thread.
(In fact, it is the file that I am already using for a few weeks to start
onboard instead of GOK during GDM.)
You can have a look at the Accessibility Configuration Section of the
GDM manual for more background information about how it works; this
manual is already shipping with the current development version of
Ubuntu.
To put it short, all that is necessary to do in order to configure GDM
to start onboard instead of GOK is to replace the file gok.desktop in
/usr/share/gdm/autostart/LoginWindow/ with the file onboard.desktop
supplied in this bug thread.
By the way, launchpad bug #130368 is solved in the new GDM in Ubuntu once it is
correctly configured.
** Affects: gdm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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gdm > 2.26: a11y should use onboard and not gok that is missing
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423831
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