GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 744551
Inconsistent behaviour on touchscreen devices
Last modified: 2021-05-25 17:46:27 UTC
Currently, Caribou is set to always pop up when a text input is selected using a touchscreen. However, this currently only works in the Gnome activity launcher and several core Gnome programs. For all other programs, one has to manually enable the screen keyboard via the accessibility menu in order for Caribou to show after selecting a text input using a touchscreen (such as in Libreoffice Writer and Xournal). This is terribly inconsistent behaviour and a real pain for touchscreen device users.
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(In reply to André Klapper from comment #1) > Please provide version information by setting the "Version" field. Thanks. Done
Hi, Bug still in gnome 3.18. Workaround, as peviously mentionned, is to activate it in Accessibility Options. However, this leads to having Caribou show up everytime a text input is focused. This can be annoying for user having Hybrid Devices like Lenovo Yoga Pro.
I have a Yoga Pro as well and am running gnome 3.18. However, I can't get the onscreen keyboard to come up even through the accessibility options. I would be fine with that for now as a workaround, as there is a way to get a toggle switch in the top right corner that I can just turn on and off. Ideally it would pop up either when you touch (rather than click) on an input box and/or when the keyboard is disabled (which I also haven't figured out how to do yet).
> Ideally it would pop up either when you touch (rather than click) That's not a super elegant solution either I think. Reason is that when using a Stylus the keyboard wouldn't come up, for example when placing a text widget in xournal. I think the virtual keyboard should just stick to the setting in the accessability menu in the top right corner. If the user has a device where it is possible to automatically detect whether a useable hardware keyboard is present, it should just toggle that setting instead of messing with the onscreen keyboard directly in some obscure way.
On Gnome 3.20, using either firefox 46.0, or chromium 50.0.2661.75, I also can't invoke on-screen-keyboard even with accessibility options. Is there a way to manually, i.e. with a shortcut icon up there - idealy the accessibility option, invoke the keyaboard independent of the application in focus? Distro: ARCHLINUX Hardware: Thinkpad X1 Yoga
(In reply to adrin from comment #6) > Is there a way to manually, i.e. with a shortcut icon up there - idealy the > accessibility option, invoke the keyaboard independent of the application in > focus? I made an extension for that: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/993/slide-for-keyboard/
I can confirm that this bug exists on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.18 on a non touch screen Toshiba Satellite c645.
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new enhancement request ticket at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/caribou/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.