onboard(1)

onboard1

On-screen keyboard

Usage

onboard [options]

Overview

onboard is an on-screen keyboard that can be useful for tablet PC users, as well as for mobility impaired people.

onboard supports macros, easy layout creation and word suggestion.

Options

onboard accepts the following command-line options:

FC-h, --helpF[0]

Display a help with all available command line options and exit.

FC-l <LAYOUT>, --layout=<LAYOUT>F[0]

Layout file (.onboard) or name

FC-t <THEME>, --theme=<THEME>F[0]

Theme file (.theme) or name

FC-x <X>F[0]

Window x position

FC-y <Y>F[0]

Window y position

FC-s <SIZE>, --size=<SIZE>F[0]

Window size, widthxheight

FC-e, --xidF[0]

Start in XEmbed mode, e.g. for gnome-screensaver

FC-a, --keep-aspectF[0]

Keep aspect ratio when resizing the window

FC-d <DEBUG>, --debug=<DEBUG>F[0]

<DEBUG>={notset|debug|info|warning|error|critical}

FC-m, --allow-multiple-instancesF[0]

Allow multiple Onboard instances

FC-q <QUIRKS>, --quirks=<QUIRKS>F[0]

Override auto-detection and manually select quirks QUIRKS={metacity|compiz|mutter}

FC--not-show-in=<DESKTOPS>F[0]

Silently fail to start in the given desktop environments. <DESKTOPS> is a comma-separated list of XDG desktop names, e.g. GNOME for GNOME Shell.

FC-g, --log-learningF[0]

log all learned text; off by default

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 9
  2. 10–Arch

Author

This manual has been written by Mike Gabriel <[email protected]> by using the options from Config.py (see COPYING file for authors of options). It is distributed under the GPL-3+ license.

From onboard 1.4.1-14 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.