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Screen Keyboard messes up Neo-Layout

Bug #1070809 reported by Lizard
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Bug Description

The Screen Keyboard included in Ubuntu 12.04 messes up the Neo Layout. Even the default state (no modificator pressed) looks slightly wrong. I attached a screenshot comparing the two.

Neo features 6 different Layers, only two of them are acessible via the screen keyboard.

lower case roman: works
upper case roman(press shift): works

programming symbols(press chaps lock): inaccessible ( []#${^|}~*<`?(>+)=%-"::'²³›‹¢¥‚‘)
navigation layer(press "mod4"): inaccessible (extra set of arrow keys, num pad, enter, tab, …)
lower case greek(shift+scaps): inaccessible (χωαποκψζσγνβφρμϕτϱ)
upper case greek and math symbols(mod4+chaps): inaccessible (∨∧⊥∡∥→∞↦ℂ∫∀∩ℵΩ∃∈ΠℤΨΓℕΦ⇔)

As the Layers 3-6 are inaccessible, most of my passwords would be inaccessible.

The screen Keybord of lightDM (the login manager) works just fine, looks like you got several different screen keyboards in Ubuntu.

This bug does not affect me, I just stumbled uppon it, when using the screenkeyboard for arabic. But I thing you should fix it anyway.

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Lizard (lizard-live) wrote :
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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in onboard.

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affects: ubuntu → onboard (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in onboard (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Stephan Springer (geryon) wrote :

I can confirm this, although layer 4 is accessible via “Alt Gr”. The layers 3, 5, and 6 are not accessible via the onscreen keyboard, as described above.

See http://neo-layout.org/ for a complete layout overview. Hover over “Ebene 1” to “Ebene 6” to see the different layers and which key(s) activate them.

PNG of the layout: http://neo-layout.org/grafik/aufsteller/neo20-aufsteller.png
PDF of the layout: http://neo-layout.org/grafik/aufsteller/neo20-aufsteller.pdf

tags: added: precise quantal raring
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Anna Timm (5-anna) wrote :

I guess this problem affects every distribution. I have it on Manjaro with onboard v. 0.99.0-1
And its very annoying since you can`t write the most basic symbols EXCLAMATIONMARK

It seems like the modification keys are more or less hard coded or unchangeable in onboard. Capslock needs to be writable for neo, not working as Capslock - but as mod 3. And Alt Gr does work as mod 4, but displays mod 3.

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