Onscreen Keyboard Not working properly

[varun_pandithurai]

Hi,
I am trying to use the onscreen keyboard in Ubuntu 18.04 (Jetpack 4.6.1), the behavior of the onscreen keyboard is unpredictable.

1. Sometimes it shows up, and sometimes it is not hiding even though auto-hide is enabled, this behavior changes for every boot.
2. Sometimes its working in all the default application but not working in my custom-built application.
   Note: It sometimes works in custom-built applications.

Is this supposed to happen or is there any way to fix it?
Thanks in advance

[KevinFFF]

Hi varun_pandithurai,

Are you using the devkit or custom board for AGX Xavier?

@varun_pandithurai

Ubuntu 18.04 (Jetpack 4.6.1),

Have you also tried with the latest Jetpack 4.6.5 or Jetpack 5.1.3?

@varun_pandithurai

onscreen keyboard

It seems the 3rd-party tool.
Please share the detailed steps how you use it and reproduce the issue.

[varun_pandithurai]

Hi @KevinFFF ,
I have this problem in both AGX_Devkit and custom_board, I didn’t try with different jetpack versions because our application works with Jetpack 4.6. Sorry for the confusion in the 1st post, The jetpack version I use is 4.6.

the onscreen keyboard is not a 3rd party tool. I enabled this from the settings application present in AGX

[KevinFFF]

It should be the tool from user space.
Please share the steps how you use it.

[varun_pandithurai]

Hi @KevinFFF,
There are no 3rd party tools being used here, I Turned the keyboard on by turning on the “screen keyboard” in
settings → universal access → typing → screen keyboard

[KevinFFF]

@varun_pandithurai

Sometimes its working in all the default application but not working in my custom-built application.

In this case, it may be caused from your application.

@varun_pandithurai

Sometimes it shows up, and sometimes it is not hiding even though auto-hide is enabled, this behavior changes for every boot.

We can not reproduce this issue on the devkit.
It is an user space application so that we cannot help with it.
You may also try using other screen keyboard application.

$ sudo apt install onboard

Or run the following to show/hide it.

Show:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-keyboard-enabled true
Hide:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.applications screen-keyboard-enabled false