Bug#1146833: OSK unfolds way too often as gtk4 sends too many text_input.enable() events

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 12:56:30PM +0200, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2026 at 9:39 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > As this makes using any GTK4 app on touch systems mostly impossible to
> > use, I picked a severe severity to keep it out of testing for the moment
> > (please adjust as appropriate). I hope to get around to look into a fix
> > soon.
> 
> Thank you for letting us know about that bug.
> 
> There is another critical bug that is caused by the IM context changes. See
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/8341 which is tracked
> in Debian as
> https://bugs.debian.org/1146841

In Phosh we can work around this by adding minimal text-input 3.2
support (thus making GTK use that).

I've also found another issue that could be RC:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/work_items/8419

which makes text-input via OSK impossible in about any app
using a text field with word-completion enabled. I can file that
separately if it helps. Workaround here is to disable text prediction.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Jeremy Bícha