Onboard too small in unity-greeter

Hi, what kind of hardware is this? Touch screen? What's the screen size and resolution? If you can, please attach a screen shot.

Please try Onboard 1.0.1 from our PPA at
https://launchpad.net/~onboard/+archive/stable
One of the changes made Onboard use more of the width on small resolution screens. I'm not sure this is helps in your case, but it's worth a try.

Hi, sorry for my incomplete bug report.

Hardware spec:
Asus EP121
13" Touchscreen + Wacom.

I attached you a screenshot and I will try the stable ppa.

Thank you

Hi, I tried the stable ppa, but it does not resolve the issue.

Best regards

Thanks for the screen shot. This is actually close to what v1.0+ was meant to look like. Before v1.0, the keyboard used to stretch from side to side even on 21:9 monitors, for an awfully distorted appearance. Now there is an upper limit for the aspect ratio change, i.e. by (Ubuntu) default, for the given height it won't use more width than you see in the image.

Maybe this aspect limit is set too low and we should allow for more distortion, but I think the real problem is that there isn't enough vertical space for the keyboard. The height is controlled by unity-greeter.

What you can do now is to manually change the range of allowed aspect ratios. Create the file
/etc/onboard/onboard-defaults.conf
and add the lines

[main]
xembed-aspect-change-range=[0, 1.6]

If it's still too small for typing then increase the upper limit "1.6" further. Let me know what you settled on.

The Ubuntu default is currently
xembed-aspect-change-range=[0, 1.15]

Hi,

1.6 is just fine. Right now its easy again to type my password.

Just a thought:
Since the vertical space is the constraint, perhaps you add a more vertical space efficient keypoard layout. The keyboard of the tungsten c for example only used four instead of five rows:

http://www.brighthand.com/images/tungsten_w_keyboard.gif

Thank you and best regards.

Good thinking, we even have two layouts with four rows - Small and Phone. Compact is still the default, mainly for accessibility reasons (hover click), but you should be able to change the layout for the greeter by adding this to your /etc/onboard/onboard-defaults.conf.

layout=Phone

The known layouts are listed in the Layout tab in Onboard's preferences.

It impacts accessibility of a core package.

This bug was fixed in the package onboard - 1.0.0-0ubuntu4

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onboard (1.0.0-0ubuntu4) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Request for sponsorship (LP: #1303370)
  * debian/patches/add_defaults_for_ubuntu.patch:
    - Increase xembed aspect change range (LP: #1297695)
 -- Francesco Fumanti <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:11:15 +0200

I've changed the example configuration in trunk to 1.6 too.