Bug#851305: onboard doesn't show any information in mate-session-properties

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 14 January 2017 at 02:49, shirish शिरीष <shirishag75 at gmail.com> wrote:
> But it's untrue that it is not displayed in MATE 'Startup Application
> Preferences' as had shared  the screenshot yesterday.

This surprised me and I finally ran MATE today to see what was going
on. MATE's Startup Applications app works differently than the old
GNOME version still shipped in Ubuntu but not in other GNOME distros
like Debian. I filed
https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-session-manager/issues/134

> Also, for sake for argument, why should it not be displayed ? It is a
> legitimate service (for blind people hence accessibility) as well as
> for people whose keyboard goes wonky (has happened once or twice in
> the past) and not able to change keyboards in a jiffy. So it's a type
> of self-insurance.

I think you misunderstand. Hiding it from Startup Applications just
means that users won't accidentally disable Onboard (or any of the
other important services that should also be hidden).

I was able to enable Onboard by clicking
System>Preferences>Personal>Preferred Applications. I switched to the
Accessibility tab and made sure that Onboard was set to "Run at
start". To disable it, just make sure that box is unchecked.

Anyway, your bug is still valid. Onboard should set the Description
field even though I'm unaware of anything that uses that field if
MATE's Startup Applications app is fixed to work like Ubuntu's does.

Jeremy