on-screen keyboard always displays once enabled

[James Hunt]

Whilst investigating bug 937611, I enabled the on-screen keyboard. However, I subsequently switched if off via "System Settings" -> "Universal Access" -> Typing tab -> "Typing Assistant".

As expected, the keyboard no longer displays on the desktop but when the screen locks automatically or is locked manually, the on-screen keyboard is displayed again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-screensaver 3.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-16.25-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-16-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 28 10:28:11 2012
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GsettingsGnomeSession:
 org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay uint32 600
 org.gnome.desktop.session session-name 'ubuntu'
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (46 days ago)
WindowManager: No value set for `/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager'

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Trenton Fox (tcfox54-gmail)]

This bug is terribly annoying.

[Ľubomír Mlích (hater-zlin)]

after upgrade to ubuntu 12.04, problem disappeared

[James Hunt (jamesodhunt)]

A way to fix this:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver embedded-keyboard-command ''

For some reason, I had the following set:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.screensaver embedded-keyboard-command
'onboard -xid'