OSK (on screen keyboard) cannot be disabled

[kylebakerio]

(1) Issue/Bug Description: OSK does not honor the Settings -> Accessibility -> Typing -> Screen Keyboard toggle. Even when disabled, it will always pop up.

(2) Steps to reproduce (if you know): Should be clear

(3) Expected behavior: Should be clear

(4) Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release): NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="22.04 LTS"

(5) Gnome Shell version: Gnome 42.2

(6) Pop Shell version (run apt policy pop-shell or provide the latest commit if building locally):

pop-shell:
  Installed: 1.1.0~1657300798~22.04~8275681
  Candidate: 1.1.0~1658778861~22.04~4cf9e14
  Version table:
     1.1.0~1658778861~22.04~4cf9e14 1001
       1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release jammy/main amd64 Packages
       1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release jammy/main i386 Packages
 *** 1.1.0~1657300798~22.04~8275681 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

(7) Where was Pop Shell installed from: recent fresh install, nothing special

(8) Monitor Setup (2 x 1080p, 4K, Primary(Horizontal), Secondary(Vertical), etc): at this moment, have 2560x1600 @ 100% selected. (natively is 3840x2400, X1 extreme gen 4) Same issue is well documented, see the block-caribou extension (that is not currently updated/available for 22.04)

(9) Other Installed/Enabled Extensions: Tiling Assistant Vitals (but both are irrelevant to this issue)

(10) Other Notes: Same issue on girlfriend's Yoga 370, and every other pop machine.

[kylebakerio]

The solution from @EngineerDaryl in the comments on the gnome-extension page are working as a temporary hard-disable extension. Annoying, but so be it.

tldr for how to implement it, summarizing steps from here:

1. Select "Download" and get the zip
2. Unzip it
3. Rename the folder you extract to: [email protected]
4. Open the metadata.json file in that folder, and delete everything in it, and copy/paste this into that file:

{
"_generated": "Generated by SweetTooth, do not edit",
"description": "Blocks caribou (the on screen keyboard) from popping up when you use a touchscreen. Even if it's disabled in the accessibility services menu. Continuation of keringar's work. Tested on GNOME Shell version 3.36 - 41 on Fedora 32 - 35. For a higher version see https://github.com/lxylxy123456/cariboublocker#installing-on-high-gnome-shell-version .",
"name": "Block Caribou 36",
"shell-version": [
"40",
"41",
"42"
],
"url": "https://github.com/lxylxy123456/cariboublocker",
"uuid": "[email protected]",
"version": 4
}

5. Copy/paste the folder into .local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
6. press alt+f2 and run r to reload gnome
7. Type "Extensions" into the launcher to open your gnome-shell extensions manager, and enable the block-caribou extensions