It should be possible to turn off the on-screen keyboard if desired

a anonymous user reported that on a Acer Aspire V3 with a touchscreen and a broken trackpad, the on-screen keyboard kept popping up (i assume whenever the user touched the screen on an “writable” window) even though the on-screen keyboard was not turned on by the user. apparently, turning it off does not work.

I assume that gnome is detecting the touchscreen and turn on the on-screen keyboard in case the hardware doesn’t have a physical keyboard available (like a tablet). It should be at least possible to disable the on-screen keyboard, or Gnome should search for a physical keyboard before turning on the on-screen keyboard.

like I said, the user was anonymous, and did not gave us further information

Parent Task: #14713 (closed)

Related issues

• Blocks #13244 (closed)

Original created by @goupille on 14763 (Redmine)