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onboard Simple on-screen keyboard
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Maintainer: duchateau.olivier@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-03-23 08:18:42
Last Update: 2026-03-23 07:41:51
Commit Hash: 42e120f
License: GPLv3+
WWW:
https://github.com/onboard-osk/onboard
Description:
On-screen Keyboard with macros, easy layout creation and word suggestion. This on-screen keyboard can be useful for tablet PC users, as well as for mobility impaired users.
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Dependency lines:
  • onboard>0:accessibility/onboard
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/accessibility/onboard/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install accessibility/onboard
  • pkg install onboard
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: onboard
Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
  • py311: onboard
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1764614769 SHA256 (onboard-osk-onboard-v1.4.3-7-79f870d_GH0.tar.gz) = 428d1473d8f7d303aa6fab20eb48d6633ff19cd166547c93b39b709914f81b41 SIZE (onboard-osk-onboard-v1.4.3-7-79f870d_GH0.tar.gz) = 11131230

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Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. py311-python-distutils-extra>0 : devel/py-python-distutils-extra@py311
  2. evdev-proto>0 : devel/evdev-proto
  3. gettext-tools>=0.26 : devel/gettext-tools
  4. intltool-extract : textproc/intltool
  5. py311-pygobject>=0 : devel/py-pygobject@py311
  6. pkgconf>=1.3.0_1 : devel/pkgconf
  7. py311-setuptools>=63.1.0 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
  8. python3.11 : lang/python311
  9. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  10. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  11. xkbfile.pc : x11/libxkbfile
  12. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Test dependencies:
  1. python3.11 : lang/python311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. iso-codes>0 : misc/iso-codes
  2. py311-dbus>0 : devel/py-dbus@py311
  3. py311-pycairo>0 : graphics/py-pycairo@py311
  4. py311-pygobject>=0 : devel/py-pygobject@py311
  5. python3.11 : lang/python311
  6. x11.pc : x11/libX11
  7. xi.pc : x11/libXi
  8. xkbfile.pc : x11/libxkbfile
  9. xtst.pc : x11/libXtst
Library dependencies:
  1. libhunspell-1.7.so : textproc/hunspell
  2. libcanberra.so : audio/libcanberra
  3. libudev.so : devel/libudev-devd
  4. libatk-1.0.so : accessibility/at-spi2-core
  5. libcairo.so : graphics/cairo
  6. libdconf.so : devel/dconf
  7. libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so : graphics/gdk-pixbuf2
  8. libglib-2.0.so : devel/glib20
  9. libintl.so : devel/gettext-runtime
  10. libgtk-3.so : x11-toolkits/gtk30
  11. libharfbuzz.so : print/harfbuzz
  12. libpango-1.0.so : x11-toolkits/pango
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
accessibility_onboard
USES:
gettext-tools gnome pkgconfig python shebangfix xorg
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Number of commits found: 1

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1.4.3.7
23 Mar 2026 07:41:51
commit hash: 42e120f87d591ca3e7ffed28377f352e6751f27dcommit hash: 42e120f87d591ca3e7ffed28377f352e6751f27dcommit hash: 42e120f87d591ca3e7ffed28377f352e6751f27dcommit hash: 42e120f87d591ca3e7ffed28377f352e6751f27d files touched by this commit
Don Lewis (truckman) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Olivier Duchateau
accessibility/onboard: new port

Add accessibility/onboard

On-screen Keyboard with macros, easy layout creation and word suggestion.
This on-screen keyboard can be useful for tablet PC users, as well as
for mobility impaired users.

Apply patch from Yusuf Yaman <nxjoseph@freebsd.org>:
I have encountered a problem when trying to launch onboard-settings from
the app itself and it had been solved by the diff below:

Pet portlint and portclippy (truckman)

PR:		291496

Number of commits found: 1