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[Christoph Reichenbach <1376764@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the quick and competent help!
Starting via dash worked fine, and I can now use the live image to repair my previous installation (which came from a slightly older Ubuntu).

The `it works after installing' approach may be correct but doesn't help when using the live image (hence I can't test), so I'd like to request that the `obvious' way to start onboard, i.e., via `Universal Access', be fixed for _at least for live_, so that future users don't run into the same issue.
(Feel free to change the bug title to `on-screen keyboard difficult to activate without expert knowledge', if that helps).


** Summary changed:

- on-screen keyboard not available in 14.10 Final Beta
+ on-screen keyboard requires expert knowledge to launch in 14.10 Final Beta

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Title:
  on-screen keyboard requires expert knowledge to launch in 14.10 Final
  Beta

Status in Onboard on-screen keyboard:
  Confirmed
Status in “onboard” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Activating the on-screen keyboard in the settings menu has no effect.
  Trying to manually execute /usr/bin/onboard via pointing-and-clicking opens up gedit (i.e., it's not recognised as an executable).
  No other keyboard input is available for the device in question, so further tests via command line (such as confirming that `python /usr/bin/onboard' starts onboard normally) are not feasible.
  Thus, 14.10 final beta is bootable but completely unusable on some tablet devices (Surface Pro 3 here).

  (Filing against `onboard' because this might be an `onboard'
  installation issue.)

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