@esjrac, you wrote in the duplicate Bug #1874017 that the issue occurs for you under Wayland as well. Can you repro this also in the tablet mode of the foldable devices that you mentioned there?
I am asking because for me this occurs under Wayland only if the devices are laptop mode. In tablet mode, the OSK comes up fine (both auto by touching textfield and when summoned by swiping). I can still repro this (with gnome 3.36.1 on Focal) with foldable devices as described in the OP above, i.e. with: Dell XPS 9575 2-in-1 Asus Zenbook Flip UX561UD However under Xorg the OSK does not come up in tablet mode either -- 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/1866556 Title: On-screen keyboard (OSK) on touch screen does not seem to work at all under Xorg in Focal Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading to Focal, the OSK never appears for me under Xorg - Does not appear automatically when selecting text fields - Cannot be summoned on-demand by swiping up from bottom screen border (which worked on Eoan also under Xorg) Under Wayland, both these things continued to work after the Focal upgrade if the laptop is in tablet mode (but not if it is in regular laptop mode - not sure if this changed on upgrade). I could repro this on two "2-in-1" fold-able laptops: Dell XPS 9575 2-in-1 Asus Zenbook flip UX561UD. (Note: There was an older bug #1760399 about OSK not working under Xorg, but this one was fixed in Cosmic) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.35.91-1ubuntu2 Uname: Linux 5.5.4-050504-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu18 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Mar 8 17:33:36 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-13 (541 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Alpha amd64 (20180912) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.35.91-1ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-01-04 (63 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1866556/+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