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Whenever the focus is on a text edit element, the key combination ctrl+alt+b brings up a weird on screen keyboard:

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I wanted to remove this binding (or delete the program), but I can find neither! As you can see in the image, the OSK is not Florence nor Onboard, nor any I could find online. A reverse google image throws no results.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS, with openbox as window manager, and no DE.

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  • Can you find out the application's command by following the question here: askubuntu.com/q/508527/367990 ?
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Dec 3, 2015 at 20:28
  • Thanks, I hadn't thought of that, but the problem is that xdotool is reporting the name of the application where I've pressed ctrl+alt+b, I can't get the name of the little dialog with the OSD. grepping ps for "osd","key", or "virtual" doesn't yield any unnormal process.
    – Pepe Mandioca
    Dec 3, 2015 at 20:41
  • Well - might it be that the on-screen keyboard is a part of your editor application then? Does it happen on other programs as well? Or only there? Which one is it?
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Dec 3, 2015 at 20:44
  • It happens on every program, as I said "whenever the focus is on a text edit element"
    – Pepe Mandioca
    Dec 3, 2015 at 20:47
  • Also, when I click "Latin" it switches to other layouts: latin, fullwidth, hirakana, greek, russian, symbol table, etc. Maybe this has something to do with openbox? It seems more like low level.
    – Pepe Mandioca
    Dec 3, 2015 at 20:53

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Reset to default
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The way to solve the issue but keep fcitx:

sudo vim /usr/share/fcitx/addon/fcitx-vk.conf

add to the file

Enable=false

logout, login again

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  • Worked, only the key was named Enabled, not Enable (Ubuntu 18.10).
    – Odysseas
    May 22, 2019 at 13:44
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I had the same problem. Probably it's caused by fctix, which is some software, which supports input methods. For some reason, I couldn't successfully kill this process from terminal. I found it in graphical system monitor and killed the process from GUI. After that, while typing Ctrl+alt+B, weird keyboard wasn't displayed anymore. You can also try to remove this software.

Instruction showing how to remove fctix can be found here: http://installion.co.uk/ubuntu/precise/universe/f/fcitx/uninstall/index.html

Uninstalling:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove fcitx

Purging config data:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove fcitx
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  • Perfect, this did the trick!
    – Pepe Mandioca
    Feb 1, 2016 at 16:04
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    If you need fcitx like me, you can just disable the Virtual Key Board addon via Fcitx Configuration.
    – xuchunyang
    Oct 8, 2016 at 11:25
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I met the same problem. I tried piotr.wittchen's solution and it did work, but I couldn't input Chinese any more after that.

So, I reinstalled fcitx, and modified its Global Config in Input Method Configuration. Choose Show Advanced Options, and make Switching Virtual Keyboard empty. This solved the problem for me.

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You can disable this by below steps: Settings->Fcitx config->Global config->Show advanced Options(Left bottom) -> Switching Virtual Keyboard -> Pressing Esc.

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