GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 791118
Resize workspace when on-screen keyboard displayed
Last modified: 2017-12-02 01:48:37 UTC
Created attachment 364799 [details] On-screen keyboard on Current on-screen keyboard is displayed over the workspace. Most of the time, this makes the desktop not usable at all. See for instance attached screenshot. With the on-screen keyboard on, it is not possible for me to access a third of my screen and therefore I cannot submit the bug report! I suggest to merge the caribou-resize-workspace into GNOME shell. Basically it resizes the workspace so that you don't have pieces of the GUI behind the keyboard. Without it, the on-screen keyboard is simply unusable. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1024/caribou-resize-workspace/
Created attachment 364800 [details] On-screen keyboard with caribou-resize-workspace extension A screenshot with the shell extension installed. As you can see, now I can properly reach all the GUI widgets at the bottom. Yes I don't have some fancy transparency display, but who cares? That's fancy but unusable. Yes the desktop seems smaller, and it indeed is. That's the whole point! You use an on-screen keyboard, it necessarily use space and has to push the rest. If it doesn't make the desktop smaller, then you simply can't reach anymore whatever is in the bottom.
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 681199 ***