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Bug 744904 - Cannot turn off caribou on touch screen though physical keyboard present
Cannot turn off caribou on touch screen though physical keyboard present
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 739293
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
: 745405 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-02-21 18:36 UTC by Lost
Modified: 2015-03-02 18:30 UTC
See Also:
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Description Lost 2015-02-21 18:36:31 UTC 
When I touch a finger in the input field appears caribou.
But I have a physical keyboard and caribou do not need me and I can not turn it off.
Arch linux
Gnome 3.14.2
Comment 1 Daiki Ueno 2015-02-22 01:30:49 UTC 
As a workaround, you could do:

  gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false

Whether to show OSK is controlled by gnome-settings-daemon's cursor plugin, which currently checks if the active input device is a touch screen.  But as you said, it might make more sense to check if no keyboard device is attached.
Comment 2 Daiki Ueno 2015-02-23 12:16:03 UTC 
Reassigning to gnome-settings-daemon.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2015-02-23 14:37:27 UTC 
That's working as designed. Why do you want to use the touchscreen without using the on-screen keyboard? Are you asking for bug 739293 ("Hide OSK when physical keyboard is used")?
Comment 4 Lost 2015-02-23 17:04:27 UTC 
Bastien Nocera
1)It is not comfortable because carbou occupies 45% screen.
2)What's the function?
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2015-03-02 11:12:46 UTC 
*** Bug 745405 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Jesse 2015-03-02 18:22:05 UTC 
Bastien Nocera,

I am in a similar circumstance to Lost. I use the touchscreen interchangeably with the touchpad mouse on my Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series (3137 model) and caribou comes up while the touchscreen is active, but I prefer to type with the physical keyboard because I type much faster with it. I would also like to have a user-friendly way of disabling caribou AND using the touchscreen at the same time. I think there are many users out there who would like to use the touchscreen and physical keyboard at the same time -- which, I believe, makes it more than relevant to have the OSK/caribou active as an option rather than a mandate.

Appreciate your time in reading my opinion and thoughts.
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2015-03-02 18:30:27 UTC 
Given the use case, I think it's well covered by bug 739293 ("Hide OSK when physical keyboard is used"), bugs in OSK notwithstanding (as in comment 4, where it might hide the entry we're trying to fill in).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 739293 ***