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Touch keyboard appears when it shouldn't (tested on gnome UI)
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Description

The touch keyboard appears whenever the screen is touched, not just when you touch and the cursor goes into a text field (like on mobile OSes). This in practice makes using touch screens for almost anything incredibly obnoxious. Observed on Lenovo Yoga 920.

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As an update, when UI scaling is enabled (2x) on a 4k screen, the touch keyboard randomly is too small and to the bottom left corner or behaves normally (at least in the gnome verison)

@ikey Any thoughts? From what I gather following this project this falls into your domain and it seems important to the project given that from the best data I can find ~40% of all new laptops in the US have a touchscreen.

Redone to have a better and more comprehensive explanation of bugs:

  1. when i touch the screen, independent of any text box interaction, and with touch keyboard off in accessibility, a touch keyboard pops up
  2. when i turn it on in accessibility it randomly turns on or off independent of user interaction
  3. the touch screen keyboard doesn't obey 200% scaling most of the time when its turned off in accessibility (but always does when its on), and i cant reproduce when it does/doesn't
Metalking778 renamed this task from Touch keyboard appears when it shouldn't (tested on gnome UI) to I).Jun 16 2020, 8:00 PM
JoshStrobl renamed this task from I) to Touch keyboard appears when it shouldn't (tested on gnome UI).Jun 16 2020, 8:13 PM
JoshStrobl changed the edit policy from "All Users" to "Triage Team (Project)".
DataDrake lowered the priority of this task from Low to Needs More Info.Mar 13 2022, 12:05 AM
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@justinkterry is this still an issue?

Closing as there has been no response for over a year.