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Ubuntu 20.10, gnome-shell 3.38.1
Followed the installation instructions, no effects.The osk is still the same, nothing changed.
This happens both on Xorg and Wayland.

It would be great if gnome-shell 3.38 would be supported as well.

Keyboard appears but input is somehow ignored.

I installed the extension under GNOME 3.36 on Mobian (Debian), it is enabled and I was able to modify the height etc, however I am not seeing any additional keys or way to change the keyboard layout. I also didn't see anything here explaining the process.

Hello,

thanks for that extension. It is more usable than the default osk keyboard of Gnome. Well, I'm happy that you added a statusbar indicator to toggle keyboard. But I can't open the osk keyboard with your statusbar indicator on Wayland. It works only when I want to close the osk keyboard. Can you check it or make it possible ?

Thanks.

Note: I see the ignore-touch-input option in the settings. Mine is set to false. For now, I tested your extension on a laptop with no touchscreen. But I have another laptop with touchscreen. So, I will enable that option on the first laptop to see if I can open the OSK when I touch the statusbar indicator with the cursor. I will test it with the other laptop in the next days. If there is a problem I will come back.

Tested it in Ubuntu 21.04 with Gnome Shell 3.38.3 on Wayland.
After installation, I logged out and logged in. The extension showed up and the keyboard did not look at all like in the screen shot. Also there was some big black area above it that filled up the missing space compared to the original osk.
When logging out and in again, the extension was simply gone, it seems to get deleted automatically for no reason, the directory ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected] was simply gone afterwards. This is 100% reproducible:

1. Install extension using git clone
2. Log out and in
3. Extension is there. Now log out and in again
4. Extension is gone

When typing, all the keys work except the enter key. It blips as if it worked, but doesn't actually do anything. If I use my Wacom Stylus, it works.

Device: X1 Yoga rev 1

Hey, thanks for picking up where this extension was before. I believe this problem was also in the old extension, but for some reason, keys like Ctrl aren't working under Wayland, so things like Ctrl+C in terminal only output "c". In XWayland apps like Chromium they work, however.

Sorry for any trouble, I just love this extension as I have a tablet and the default onscreen keyboard in GNOME is just really bad, lol.

If so, any plans to make it work on Xorg too?

Hello, this is not really an issue. More like a feature request...

Would it be possible to have the numbers row always visible, just like on a normal keyboard?
Typing passwords with numbers is a constant switching between layouts...

Thank you.

Recently, Arch Linux has upgraded gnome-shell to 40.0. Here are some issues I've found so far (tested on Wayland with the latest git version of this extension):

1. Need to set /org/gnome/shell/disable-extension-version-validation to true in dconf to enable this extension
2. OSK cannot show up when a physical mouse is available (my mouse is connected through bluetooth)
3. Application windows cannot be resized when OSK shows up
4. The extension settings can't be displayed (technical details pasted below)

Error: No property margin on GtkGrid

Stack trace:
  _init/Gtk.Widget.prototype._init@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gtk.js:45:40
  buildPrefsWidget@/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js:25:21
  _init@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:209:40
  OpenExtensionPrefsAsync/<@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/extensionsService.js:122:28
  asyncCallback@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/core/overrides/Gio.js:115:22
  run@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/dbusService.js:177:20
  main@resource:///org/gnome/Shell/Extensions/js/main.js:19:13
  run@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:206:19
  start@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/script/package.js:190:8
  @/usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Extensions:1:17

Hi Sebastian,

First, thank you very much for this excellent piece of software! This is a great relief when working with Ubuntu Gnome on a 2-in-1 laptop with touchscreen.

Will there be a dedicated version for Gnome 3.38?

Best regards

Hi! I tried installing this extension but was met by the following error:

TypeError: ExtensionUtils.getSettings is not a function

I see that the only offered download is for a newer version, so I understand if this isn't a concern, but I wanted to see if it was possible to fix given that the extension this is based on installs fine on this version.

(Also, sorry, hit Ctrl+Enter instead of Shift+Enter and submitted this too early by mistake.)

Thanks for your extension. Would it be possible to include some adjustment for the height/layout in portrait mode. At the moment it is not ideal on my X1 tablet (see screenshot below). Would be nice if one could increase the height, by for example, changing the aspect ratio of the keys.

There's some other extension (https://github.com/jlempen/gnome-shell-osk-tweaks) that can do it apparently. However it is not working for Gnome 3.36.