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A keyboard keeps popping up on my Thinkpad T470 with touchscreen. It does not take any input, but the virtual keys light up when touched, so I can't even use the predestined button to minimize it or open its settings. It takes a lot of real estate on the screen and I want to get rid of it alltogether.

In the accessibility settings there is an option for a screen keyboard, but it is already turned off while I experience this behaviour.

A large-language model suggests to execute the following command:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-keyboard-enabled false

It results in no return and does not solve the problem

Overall this seems like a common problem as even some extensions exist to specifically block the keyboard like mentioned here. However, I feel like adding something to deactivate something is not a satisfactory solution. It is also not practical at the moment for me as I cannot access the gnome extensions.

What should I do and what even is the issue?

CouscousPie
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I had a similar problem (on my Lenovo L13, Ubuntu 22.04) and found a fix at the link you mentioned. Specifically, I got Block Caribou 36 to work after running

sudo apt install chrome-gnome-shell

After that install, I refreshed the Block Caribou page and turned it on (switch at upper right). Note the refreshed Block Caribou page showed a warning

Your native host connector do not support following APIs: v6. You should probably upgrade ...

but I ignored that and switched from off to on. I ignored based on vanadium's answer to this question (that answer refers to Gnome Shell 42.2 but it worked for my Gnome Shell 42.9).

zx485
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jim green
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