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Whenever the focus is on a text edit element, the key combination ctrl+alt+b brings up a weird on screen keyboard:

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I wanted to remove this binding (or delete the program), but I can find neither! As you can see in the image, the OSK is not Florence nor Onboard, nor any I could find online. A reverse google image throws no results.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, with openbox as window manager, and no DE.

Pepe Mandioca
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  • Can you find out the application's command by following the question here: http://askubuntu.com/q/508527/367990 ? – Byte Commander Dec 03 '15 at 20:28
  • Thanks, I hadn't thought of that, but the problem is that xdotool is reporting the name of the application where I've pressed ctrl+alt+b, I can't get the name of the little dialog with the OSD. grepping ps for "osd","key", or "virtual" doesn't yield any unnormal process. – Pepe Mandioca Dec 03 '15 at 20:41
  • Well - might it be that the on-screen keyboard is a part of your editor application then? Does it happen on other programs as well? Or only there? Which one is it? – Byte Commander Dec 03 '15 at 20:44
  • It happens on every program, as I said "whenever the focus is on a text edit element" – Pepe Mandioca Dec 03 '15 at 20:47
  • Also, when I click "Latin" it switches to other layouts: latin, fullwidth, hirakana, greek, russian, symbol table, etc. Maybe this has something to do with openbox? It seems more like low level. – Pepe Mandioca Dec 03 '15 at 20:53
  • That could be, but I have no idea... I stayed with Unity or XFCE, never had openbox. – Byte Commander Dec 04 '15 at 10:27
  • What really gets me is that there's absolutely no mention of this OSK anywhere. My paranoid self fears some sort of wierd inverse keylogger, where instead of logging my keys someone's trying to get me to use the OSK. – Pepe Mandioca Dec 04 '15 at 18:28

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The way to solve the issue but keep fcitx:

sudo vim /usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-vk.conf

add to the file

Enable=false

logout, login again

Zanna
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petertc
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I had the same problem. Probably it's caused by fctix, which is some software, which supports input methods. For some reason, I couldn't successfully kill this process from terminal. I found it in graphical system monitor and killed the process from GUI. After that, while typing Ctrl+alt+B, weird keyboard wasn't displayed anymore. You can also try to remove this software.

Instruction showing how to remove fctix can be found here: http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/precise/universe/f/fcitx/uninstall/index.html

Uninstalling:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove fcitx

Purging config data:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove fcitx
Piotr Wittchen
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I met the same problem. I tried piotr.wittchen's solution and it did work, but I couldn't input Chinese any more after that.

So, I reinstalled fcitx, and modified its Global Config in Input Method Configuration. Choose Show Advanced Options, and make Switching Virtual Keyboard empty. This solved the problem for me.

Community
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Du Ang
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You can disable this by below steps: Settings->Fcitx config->Global config->Show advanced Options(Left bottom) -> Switching Virtual Keyboard -> Pressing Esc.

BJDM
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