System virtual keyboard appears without clicking text field.

[Jeb E.]

The default Ubuntu system keyboard is appearing and activating on the screen, taking the foreground, upon clicking anyplace with the touchscreen - even non-text areas. This causes whatever task I am doing to be interrupted with and interfered by the virtual keyboard.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: systemd 234-2ubuntu12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-lowlatency 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Dec 26 06:58:43 2017
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 2386:3111
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 8087:0a2a Intel Corp.
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:58c2 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 13-5368
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.13.0-21-lowlatency root=UUID=b0b38a57-52b5-4e23-be9e-85197724f378 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: systemd
SystemdDelta:
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service → /lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service.d/debian.conf
 [EXTENDED] /lib/systemd/system/user@.service → /lib/systemd/system/user@.service.d/timeout.conf

 2 overridden configuration files found.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/14/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.14.0
dmi.board.name: 01DC01
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.14.0:bd09/14/2017:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron13-5368:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn01DC01:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.family: Inspiron
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 13-5368
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1721319, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.