Thanks all for your input. Remember in comment #45 Andrea said he would start working on a fix for this in January. It is now January. So wait and see...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723857 Title: onscreen keyboard appears whenever i touch touchscreen Status in GNOME Shell: Confirmed Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in gnome-shell source package in Artful: Triaged Bug description: Impact ====== I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the touchscreen, the keyboard appears. It is disabled in System Preferences > Universal Access. This didn't happen in any previous Ubuntus, including 17.04 GNOME, nor in Fedora, which is GNOME based. Test Case ========= 0. Find a laptop with a touch screen that works. 1. Settings > Universal Access > Typing > Screen Keyboard = OFF 2. Touch the screen. Regression Potential ==================== Workaround ========== https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1326/block-caribou/ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/1723857/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
