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Well, the title says it. I have a Lenovo yoga 500, recently updated to 20.04. When I was on 19.10, the keyboard used to show automatically when I touch a textbox. However, now it won't open, unless I do it manually via the Universal Access menu. I'll be happy If someone can help me.

Grigor
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    Same here on an Eve V. Initial install was 18.10. The on-screen keyboard would open reliably when touching any text entry field. This stopped working after upgrading from 19.10 to 20.04. Additionally swiping up from the bottom to force the on-screen keyboard to show up no longer works either. – Gecko May 11 '20 at 11:20
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    Same issue, I have an HP Pavilion 15z. I had 18.04 initially where onscreen keyboard worked when tapping text inputs. Then did a clean install of 20.04 a couple weeks ago and tapping no longer works, unless activating through settings BUT that brings up the onscreen keyboard with non-touch selection. – Caleb Taylor May 15 '20 at 04:29
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    Same problem with Yoga X390: was working like a charm in 19.10, does not work in 20.04 LTS :( – Piotr Czekalski Jun 18 '20 at 20:34
  • @Gecko Thanks for mentioning swiping from the bottom up, this actually brings up the keyboard for me on Ubuntu 20.04 – NeStack Jan 09 '22 at 15:53

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Logout and switch to Ubuntu(Xorg) session. That fixed both keyboard and rotation problems for me in Ubuntu 21

dark knight
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You need to turn it on under the accessibility options. Here's the official documentation. It appears to pop up all the time now though.

  1. Open the Activities overview and start typing "Settings".

  2. Click on Settings.

  3. Click Universal Access in the sidebar to open the panel.

  4. Switch on Screen Keyboard in the Typing section.

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Lex Man
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    Yes, I know, I said the same in my post. I want it to show automatically when I touch a textbox and not to show when I click it, as it was in 19.10. If I turn it on manually via the universal access menu, it would show everytime, no matter if a textbox is touched or clicked. – Grigor Apr 28 '20 at 06:08
  • is there a way, i can bring it up any time i want instead of it popping up by iteself for inputs. i would like to use it for vlc media player to use hot keys. – Naveen Reddy Marthala Oct 21 '20 at 15:33
  • As a workaround, in the Universal Access menu you can check the "Always Show Universal Access menu", which will add a dropdown menu to the top bar to quickly set/unset the OSK. If you have a laptop that can switch into tablet mode like me, this is a reasonable solution (it would be nicer if it could switch into OSK mode automatically when folding the screen back, of course). – Jack M Nov 11 '20 at 12:58