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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ant <n58r <at> pm.me>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.1

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 76987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: n58r <at> pm.me
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, 76987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#76987: 30.1;
 On-screen-keyboard always showing upon touching with no physical
 keyboard in GNOME
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:57:15 +0000

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

Unfortunately the on-screen-keyboard accessibility setting is ignored 
on GNOME with no physical keyboard attached. A touch screen press will 
always trigger OSK if on a text-box. It appears there's no option to 
circumvent 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.

Got it, that's a pity. Thank you for the answer.
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