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An on-screen keyboard is showing up every time I touch a text field when I use an external monitor with touchscreen. I don't want/need this feature since I have a physical keyboard.

Here's a picture of the virtual keyboard:

The VKB showing up

I read a lot about this issue, but didn't find any solution. I tried the gnome-extension "Block Caribou" but it's not working. Also, the extension was only tested on gnome 3.26 according to gnome-extensions website, so not sure if it's working properly on my system.

Block-Caribou enabled

Also, the on-screen keyboard is disabled in the accessibility settings (on the desktop and on the log-in screen). I think this keyboard must be located somewhere in my system and it should be possible to disable it if I would know where to look at.

System: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS with Gnome 3.36.8

Any help or ideas are very welcome.

EDIT: I'll summarize here the comments below. onboard, caribou and florence are not installed in my system as shown by the dpkg -L command. I did not install any virtual keyboard manually (for example as gnome-extension). Only for this purpose and as a workaround I tried installing caribou and enabling again the BlockCaribou extension in the hope that it would block the new installed keyboard. It didn't work. I removed completely caribou. Any other ideas?

UnderTheHoud
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As of Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS with Gnome 3.36.8 block caribou extension by @keringar won't work. Instead of it use recent version of it by @lxylxy123456

kenn
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I've had a similar situation in the past but it wasn't when using an external screen so maybe not be linked to your issue.

My problem was caused by having the accessibility on-screen keyboard enabled on the initial login screen. This setting is separate from the one in the settings found when logged in.

Log out of your user profile and at the top right of the screen you'll see a stick-man figure in a white circle. Click on that and you'll get a drop down menu and ensure the on-screen keyboard is off. Then log back into your user profile and try your touchscreen click in a text box again.

This fixed my issue but like I say this may not be the same thing for you. Hope it helps.

Vosman
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Had the same issue. Frustrating. Installed gnome-extension 'Improved OSK' and enabled option 'ignore touch-input'. Extension didn't disable 'touch-input' but it did take care of the onscreen keyboard!

Thank you NickShmyrev! https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4413/improved-osk/

RiskyB
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This is an accessibility setting.

Settings >> Accessibility >> Typing >> Screen Keyboard

chx101
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