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Onboard keyboard issues... - Eric Rikkinen - 10-09-2025

Hello...

I have a Surface Go tablet onto which I installed Linux Lite v. 7.6.  The issue is as follows; When attempting to use Onboard onscreen keyboard it simply vanishes off the screen the instant I tap it.  I wish to use this device while mobile and do not want to attach a full keyboard every time I need to type something.  Has anyone encountered this situation before?  Any suggestions would be helpful. 

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Onboard keyboard issues... - valtam - 10-11-2025

I've noticed this too. Will look into a fix and advise a solution.

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RE: Onboard keyboard issues... - valtam - 10-12-2025

Please try the following:

Code:
gsettings set org.onboard.keyboard input-event-source 'GTK'


Code:
sudo apt install mousetweaks

Code:
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

then try onboard.

RE: Onboard keyboard issues... - Eric Rikkinen - 10-14-2025

(10-11-2025, 03:31 AM)valtam Wrote: I've noticed this too. Will look into a fix and advise a solution.

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Thanks for the suggestion.  I tried it, but Onboard still vanishes when attempting to use it.  This still happened after a restart.  Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

RE: Onboard keyboard issues... - valtam - 10-15-2025

Code:
sudo apt install systemd-coredump

in a Terminal:

Code:
onboard

then close onboard, or let it crash.

Then paste the out of both of the below in your next reply.

Code:
coredumpctl info onboard

Code:
coredumpctl gdb onboard


RE: Onboard keyboard issues... - Eric Rikkinen - 10-20-2025

Hello...

I finally got back to this problem with the Onboard virtual keyboard vanishing when attempting to use it on a Microsoft Surface Go running Linux Lite 7.6.

I tried all the suggestions you provided:

1)  I tried the following from your first reply:

Code:
gsettings set org.onboard.keyboard input-event-source 'GTK'

Code:
sudo apt install mousetweaks

Code:
sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

After this it appeard to resove the issue, but then I found that I could not get Onboard to appear on the login screen/  I tried every setting in the Settings/Session and Startup/Application Autostart/Onboard/Trigger.  All to no avail.  Then Onboard went back to either not appearing or vanishing when trying to use it. 

2)   So I then tried the nest set of suggestions as follows:

Code:
sudo apt install systemd-coredump


Code:
onboard
Onboard did then fail by itself.

Code:
coredumpctl info onboard
After this the Terminal seemed to get hung - it would not return to a prompt to allow me to input the next command.  I copied all of the above into a text file ("Attempt to stabilize Onboard #1").

3)  I opened another instance of Terminal and input the final command you suggested:

Code:
coredumpctl gdb onboard
 This failed with an error.  I copied these results into another text file ("Attempt ... #2")


.pdf   Attempt to stabilize Onboard #1.pdf (Size: 110.16 KB / Downloads: 0)
.pdf   Attempt to stabilize Onboard #2.pdf (Size: 80.93 KB / Downloads: 0)
Any further suggestions would be appreciated very much.  I want to give this tablet computer to an inexperienced person to use and it would be very combersome for them to have to carry  a keyboard & mouse everywhere they need to use it.

Thank you, very much for your efforts to look into this very odd issue.

Eric R.