Screen Keyboard on - how to activate it

Question

With Screen Keyboard switched on, I wonder how I can activate it. Sometimes it appears as when logging in and while typing the password, but in many other situations it does not appear.

How can I make it appear when I need it?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 23 '20 at 16:34

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Assuming that you are in Ubuntu 17.04 or later, it should activate on its own whenever you click on an input field read this for more info. For me it appears each time I touch the display on an input field.

Hope this helps.

answered Mar 23 '20 at 16:34

With 18.04.4 LTS this does not work. For example now, while typing this, no keyboard appears. – false Mar 23 '20 at 16:41
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Hmm, I'm on the same version but works properly for me. – Mar 23 '20 at 16:43
Could it be your display? – Mar 23 '20 at 17:10
How can I test this? Sometimes it appears. In terminals this seems to be always reproducible. But not in Firefox windows it seems. – false Mar 23 '20 at 17:12
Are you using a touchscreen display? – Mar 23 '20 at 17:15
No, regular laptop – false Mar 23 '20 at 17:23
have you tried both on xorg and wayland, is it the same behavior? – Mar 23 '20 at 17:26
No. I do need X. – false Mar 23 '20 at 17:35
I am on xorg for the record, try installing xorg and test it out it that could be the issue – Mar 23 '20 at 17:36
Thank you. I hoped for a simple solution which does not exist it seems. – false Mar 23 '20 at 17:38
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Sometimes I hate on linux as well but kinda got used to it, keep trying windows but just makes things harder, gotta give a try to Mac, sorry for not being able to help you. – Mar 23 '20 at 17:42

Screen Keyboard on - how to activate it

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