eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting text fields in some non-GTK apps

[Efthimios Chaskaris]

I get this on Eoan, no OSK pop up for Chromium text fields, on a laptop and a desktop.

The OSK pops up fine on terminal, login field and text editor. It also doesn't work on Chrome.

Curiously, when swiping up with mouse on the laptop the OSK doesn't come up when Chromium is on the view, but it comes up when on desktop.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

@Efthimios: does it work if you do the following:

    export ACCESSIBILITY_ENABLED=1
    chromium --force-renderer-accessibility

[Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris)]

No it doesn't. It worked in disco.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Ok, so that's a regression, probably caused by the deb->snap transition. I'll remove the duplicate status then.

[Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris)]

It worked with the snap

[Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris)]

*It worked with the snap on Disco. I'm also not convinced this is related only to Chromium. I just tested in Firefox and it doesn't work there either.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Similar problems can and do exist in Chromium and Firefox simultaneously while native Gnome apps won't have such problems. So maybe gnome-shell is the wrong place for this bug.

Can you please list affected and unaffected apps?

[Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris)]

Unaffected: Terminal, Files, Gedit, Ubuntu Software, Calculator, Libreoffice writer

Affected: Snap: VLC, Chromium, Firefox,

Non-snap: Steam, Gsmartcontrol, Tor browser, Teamviewer, Anydesk

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks. It sounds like non-GTK apps are missing something here, so the bug should probably be assigned to each of those apps/toolkits...