Whenever I touch the bottom of my touchscreen, on-screen keyboard pops up.

[DT]

Whenever I touch the bottom of my touchscreen, on-screen keyboard pops up. Yes, I know you have closed it in the past but shouldn't it be finally fixed? blockcaribou is on in gnome shell extensions but apparently it's for a shell version too old.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.2-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jul 25 21:14:51 2020
DisplayManager: lightdm
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-30 (299 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-23 (63 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we cannot work on this bug because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read 'How to report bugs effectively' http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures.

At a minimum, we need:
1. The specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem.
2. The behavior you expected.
3. The behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).

Thanks!

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

1. Are you touching any part of the screen that contains a window?

2. If you disable the 'Desktop Icons' extension in the 'Extensions' app, does the problem go away?

[DT (bipll)]

> 1. Are you touching any part of the screen that contains a window?

As a matter of fact, I've noted recently, it pops up even if I don't touch the screen at all. Is there a way to get completely rid of this thing?

> 2. If you disable the 'Desktop Icons' extension in the 'Extensions' app, does the problem go away?

I'll need some time to test this, thank you.

[DT (bipll)]

> At a minimum, we need:
> 1. The specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem.
> 2. The behavior you expected.
> 3. The behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).

Oh please.
1. For instance, five minutes ago it popped up thrice every moment I was pressing Ctrl-PgUp. I have no idea what other absolutely innocent actions can summon it from the deep.
2. That it does not jump out and cover half of the screen.
3. It jumps out, few times in succession usually, causing me to press 'v' key on it, just to discover it's there again in a few seconds.

Guys, this is not about something that should be deeply debugged with serious frowning face or about some rare unsolicited bug that suddenly emerges if you read incantations in reversed Hebrew for three hours during the full moon when all the planets parade.

It's about a component 99.5% users have been struggling to get rid off for ten of fifteen years yet which is impossible to turn off because, well, it's definitely free as in speech when someone decides on your behalf that you should want to have it on permanent standby.

And no, disabling 'Desktop Icons' obviously did not help.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

OK, next please report the issue to the developers at:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues

and then tell us the new issue ID.