Bug#1135271: Bug Report for Debian 11 (Gnome Onscreen Keyboard)

[Kian T.]

Package: Gnome-Shell

Hello,

I work for a company where we are building a project that is a touchscreen
device. We are currently having problems with the Gnome onscreen keyboard.
We are unable to deactivate and/or remove the on screen keyboard on
touchscreen devices. We can remove it easily on non touchscreen devices.

We have ran these commands:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-keyboard-enabled false

We even tried to purge "Caribou", which I believe the onscreen keyboard
uses:

dpkg -P caribou

We tried everything and this onscreen keyboard keeps popping up when the
user touches the screen and touches a text field.

I looked at the code for gnome-shell and I have found this:

https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/93c476ef4b6bc670987a11ecb5acbcbfada5b036/js/ui/keyboard.js#L1089


https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/93c476ef4b6bc670987a11ecb5acbcbfada5b036/js/ui/keyboard.js#L1099

This is a major issue and I don't know what to do about this. I think it is
hardcoded to pull up the onscreen keyboard everytime someone uses a
touchscreen and presses something. Is there anything that can fix this
problem ?

Thank you for your time.
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