@Neil, comment #24, could you elaborate what you discussed with Sam and
Jason?

Francesco and me have been discussing this bug too and to us the window-
type DOCK approach (or alternatively marking onboard "override-
redirect") seems feasible. The main obstacle appears to be missing
window decoration, but I have been working on making decoration optional
anyway. There are "move", "hide" and "quit" buttons in an upstream
branch already. What's missing is a replacement for window resizing.

There are more quirks though, loss of screen edge snapping and onboard
can be positioned over the top panel. So if you have a better approach
let us know please.

There is one other option. Onboard and other osks support the XEmbed extension. 
Gnome-screensaver  and since recently lightdm use this to embed onboard (or 
other osks, cellwriter) into their windows. If unity supported that, onboard 
and others could already be made transients of dash. 
That is more of a long term vision though and unity would probably have to be 
modified with on-screen keyboards in mind, e.g. having a "keyboard dock" at the 
botton of the screen or something.

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