Onscreen Keyboard at login

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I recently upgraded to Ubuntu Mate 24.04. After the upgrade, I’ve lost the onscreen keyboard at login. Does anyone know how to get it back? Even the “accessibility” button is gone. The thing is, my laptop has a broken keyboard so, I use the onscreen keyboard to login.

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Hi, @ireallydontknow and welcome to the Ubuntu MATE Community!

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ssh to your laptop, create ~/.config/autostart/onboard.display

with contents

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

restart laptop

Also, you could modify /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf so that it auto-logins you.

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If you cannot ssh into your laptop, you could

  • boot to a Live ISO,
  • "try ubuntu"
  • open a terminal and enter "sudo bash"
  • edit the appropriate file per Pavlos' directions

Hope that helps!

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