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How to enable onboard in lightdm-gtk-greeter?

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 6273 / 1 Year ago, thu, december 29, 2022, 6:03:43

Unity-greeter crashes, and constantly respawns, not letting me in. So, I configured auto login but that won't start anything except Unity session. I changed the lightdm.conf file to run Xubuntu but Unity still shows up. If I create a new user, it will start in Xubuntu just fine. I deleted my .conf XFCE prefs and that fixed nothing.

I can at least get in to the gtk login greeter but then the onboard keyboard does not show up. If I could get the onboard keyboard in the gtk greeter, I would be super happy. The onboard keyboard shows up in the Unity greeter just fine. But not the gtk greeter.

I don't have a solid keyboard because it is a tablet. So, I need the onboard in the greeter.

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answered 1 Year ago erranbe · Accepted Answer

There still seems like there is no way to get an on screen keyboard in the gtk greeter.
Enabling the onscreen keyboard in the unity-greeter is somewhat easy but after a lot of research it appears that no one has done the development necessary to start an onscreen keyboard in the gtk greeter.

My particular problem however, does have a hack/fix. That is, I switched on "user does not need password on login"

This feature makes it so when the gtk greeter comes up, I only need to click on my user name to login. My user still has a password which I can use for package management etc. But for simply logging in , turning off the need to enter a password gives me at least a temporary fix...

I can at least get into my system without a keyboard.