Screen Keyboard does not open when entering an input field

Bug #1967827 reported by Philip Yip
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Critical
Unassigned

Bug Description

The screen keyboard does not display when using the touchscreen to input into a text input field on Chromium (e.g. Search Bar and Address Bar) or Chrome. This makes these browsers unusable on a tablet without an external keyboard. In addition there is no way to manually bring up the screen keyboard e.g. by placing a button on the address bar or panel.

The Firefox browser, files and settings all invoke the touchscreen keyboard when pressing into a text input field and work as expected.

Description: Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (development branch)
Release: 22.04
Chromium: Version 100.0.4896.60

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-23.23-generic 5.15.27
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu80
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 5 06:51:40 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-04-02 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Beta amd64 (20220329.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Snap: chromium 100.0.4896.60 (latest/stable)
Snap.Changes: no changes found
SnapSource: ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Philip Yip (philipyip2) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
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