GNU bug report logs - #76987
30.1; On-screen-keyboard always showing upon touching with no physical keyboard in GNOME

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: n58r <at> pm.me, 76987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#76987: 30.1; On-screen-keyboard always showing upon touching with no physical keyboard in GNOME
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:34:49 +0200

> From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
> Cc: Ant <n58r <at> pm.me>,  76987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:03:50 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 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.

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