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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:34:49 +0200

> From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Ant <[email-masked]>,  [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.

So maybe users should look at customizing this via GNOME customization
options.