So, I figured out what it was. . . the file was fine and onboard is working fine, but with some unexpected and desired results. I had created a ubuntu shortcut file named NextGen in the same directory from which I was running my program. This seemed to cause onboard to use that file instead of the keyboard layouts in ~/.local/share/onboard/layouts.
It seems that onboard has a three stage lookup process for where to find the layout file it is being asked to load: 1) local directory, 2) users custom layouts, or 3) global layouts location. The problem it seems I uncovered is that when you have another file with the same name as a custom layout name in your local directory, it tries to load from the local directory even if the other files aren't there (no svg files). Also, my local file had no .onboard suffix and onboard still tried to load it. This should probably be a pretty low priority, but I would recommend you move to a stricter name comparison and look for the .onboard suffix to make sure that the local file really is an onboard configuration file and not just an unfortunately named file. I will remember to look at onboard -ddebug next time I have a problem as well as this again would have solved my problem much quicker by telling me which file it was loading. Thanks for the tip! For now, I am going to just rename the custom layout name to something much more specific like NextGenKeyboardLayout that will never be duplicated and go on my way. Thanks so much for the response, other than this problem I have been very satisfied with onboard, especially after updating from 0.97 to 0.99. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249493 Title: onboard keyboard crashes when started in node.js running custom layout To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/onboard/+bug/1249493/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
