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

Bug #1851931 reported by Efthimios Chaskaris
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firefox (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

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.

See original description
Tags: eoan osk
Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris)
description: updated
description: updated
description: updated
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → chromium (Ubuntu)
Paul White (paulw2u)
affects: chromium (Ubuntu) → chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

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

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

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Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris) wrote :

No it doesn't. It worked in disco.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

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

summary: - On-screen keyboard does not appear automatically when selecting some
- text fields on Eoan
+ [snap] regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting some
+ text fields
tags: added: sanp
tags: added: snap
removed: sanp
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Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris) wrote : Re: [snap] regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting some text fields

It worked with the snap

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Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris) wrote :

*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.

Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
summary: - [snap] regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting some
- text fields
+ [snap] eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting
+ some text fields
Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris)
no longer affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
tags: removed: snap
summary: - [snap] eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting
- some text fields
+ eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting some
+ text fields
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote : Re: eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting some text fields

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?

tags: added: osk
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Efthimios Chaskaris (echaskaris) wrote :

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

Affected: Snap: VLC, Chromium, Firefox,

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

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

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

summary: - eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting some
- text fields
+ eoan regression: OSK does not appear automatically when selecting text
+ fields in some non-GTK apps
affects: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) → firefox (Ubuntu)
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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