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sdaau
Asked: 2012-03-24 05:15:32 +0800 CST

Enable on-screen keyboard from the command line

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My keyboard just broke down, so I wanted to enable the on-screen keyboard, found in "Universal settings", via the command line (by logging in to that PC via ssh)....

Unfortunately, I cannot find any guidance to doing that - any ideas?

10.04 keyboard

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  1. Best Answer

    You can use SSH to add the onboard screen keyboard to the list of startup application.
    To do so you should simply create a .display file within ~/.config/autostart directory.
    The onboard.display file should contain:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Type=Application
    Exec=onboard
    Hidden=false
    NoDisplay=false
    X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
    Name=Onboard Keyboard
    Comment=

    Save it and restart (sudo shutdown -r now).

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