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Bug 791118 - Resize workspace when on-screen keyboard displayed
Resize workspace when on-screen keyboard displayed
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 681199
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: keyboard
3.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-12-02 00:32 UTC by Jehan
Modified: 2017-12-02 01:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
On-screen keyboard on (65.67 KB, image/png)
2017-12-02 00:32 UTC, Jehan
Details
On-screen keyboard with caribou-resize-workspace extension (57.95 KB, image/png)
2017-12-02 00:35 UTC, Jehan
Details

Description Jehan 2017-12-02 00:32:43 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/
Comment 1 Jehan 2017-12-02 00:35:55 UTC
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.
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2017-12-02 01:48:37 UTC
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 ***