Subject: bug#76987: 30.1; On-screen-keyboard always showing upon touching with no physical keyboard in GNOME

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:03:50 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:42:50 +0000
>> From:  Ant via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Touching any area in Emacs, editable or not, invokes the on screen
>> keyboard in GNOME 47 if no physical keyboard is connected. This happens
>> despite the touch-screen-display-keyboard variable being nil.
>
> Po Lu, could you please look into this?

As documented in the Emacs manual, GNOME (and other X desktop
environments) apply heuristics to decide whether the on-screen keyboard
is to be displayed upon registering touchscreen input to an application.
There's nothing here that is within our power to resolve, I'm afraid.