Good thinking, we even have two layouts with four rows - Small and Phone. Compact is still the default, mainly for accessibility reasons (hover click), but you should be able to change the layout for the greeter by adding this to your /etc/onboard/onboard-defaults.conf.
layout=Phone The known layouts are listed in the Layout tab in Onboard's preferences. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to onboard in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1297695 Title: Onboard too small in unity-greeter Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: In the login screen (unity-greeter) the onboard only use fraction of the horizontal space. This is a regression to previews releases (0.99), since keys became very small and it is hard to type the password. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: onboard 1.0.0-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-19.40-generic 3.13.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-19-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Mar 26 09:34:15 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-11 (73 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130820.2) SourcePackage: onboard UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-23 (2 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1297695/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp