{"id":3536,"date":"2014-06-26T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3536"},"modified":"2014-06-26T13:38:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:38:13","slug":"enable-onscreen-keyboard-in-lightdm-gtk-greeter-in-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/enable-onscreen-keyboard-in-lightdm-gtk-greeter-in-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Onscreen Keyboard in LightDM-Gtk-Greeter in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unity_logo_icon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/unity_logo_icon.jpg\" alt=\"lightdm-gtk-greeter onscreen keyboard\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2901\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>If you&#8217;re using Lightdm-Gtk-Greeter instead of the default Unity Greeter in Ubuntu 14.04, this quick tutorial will show you how to enable onscreen virtual keyboard in your login screen.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Lightdm-gtk-greeter provides a light-weight, GTK+2 or GTK+3 login screen for Linux desktops. It is available in the Software Center of Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<p>Onscreen keyboard is not enabled by default in this greeter. If you want this feature, just do a little tweak on the config file and then you are able to launch the virtual keyboard via indicator menu or shortcut key <b>F3<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gtk-greeter-keyboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gtk-greeter-keyboard.jpg\" alt=\"lightdm-gtk-greeter onscreen keyboard\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gtk-greeter-keyboard.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/gtk-greeter-keyboard-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First edit the config file, \/etc\/lightdm\/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf, with your favorite text editor. Here I use gedit. <\/p>\n<p>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open the terminal. When it opens, run:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo gedit \/etc\/lightdm\/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf<\/pre>\n<p>When the file opens, do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>add new line <code>keyboard=onboard<\/code><\/li>\n<li>add <code>~a11y;<\/code> as a value of indicators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So the file will look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/enable-onscreen-keyboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/enable-onscreen-keyboard.png\" alt=\"enable-onscreen-keyboard\" width=\"500\" height=\"205\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/enable-onscreen-keyboard.png 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/enable-onscreen-keyboard-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally save the file and reboot. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you&#8217;re using Lightdm-Gtk-Greeter instead of the default Unity Greeter in Ubuntu 14.04, this quick tutorial will show you how to enable onscreen virtual keyboard in your login screen. Lightdm-gtk-greeter provides a light-weight, GTK+2 or GTK+3 login screen for Linux desktops. It is available in the Software Center of Ubuntu 14.04. Onscreen keyboard is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1002,855],"class_list":["post-3536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-lightdm-gtk-greeter","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}