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Pressing home on my physical keyboard opens Pasteria text bar

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this feels like a very nuance bug, but it’s affecting my enjoyment of this launcher enough for me to write this and record the issue. it’s a pretty annoying bug so any help is appreciated.

i am using the unihertz titan 2 which has a physical keyboard. when i press the home key on the keyboard, it seems like it programmatically simulates swipe up on android, which takes me back to home screen. i verified this with “swipe up to search” feature, and pressing home button cycles through search and home screen.

however, pressing home from another app to go to home screen also prompts Pasteria’s keyboard to be activated (which is my device’s keyboard app). you can see the keyboard toolbar with the symbols in the recording. this is the bug

the question is how to pinpoint this being a niagara app bug vs unihertz launcher vs pasteria bug.

evidence

in my attached recordings, you can see that restarting niagara launcher also causes Pasteria to be triggered.

this bug also does not happen with the stock launcher.

this bug also recently started happening, like within the last week, which leads me to believe that it’s a Niagara launcher bug in a recent release.

steps to replicate:

  1. have Pasteria app installed and set to device input method. verify that toolbar shows up on input entry

  2. go into an app, and swipe up to go home (likely how unihertz titan 2 simulates keyboard home button)

  3. text bar shows up when it should not

unfortunately i dont have another device to test this on.

thanks for taking the time to look into this

Brian

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Posted by Brian Lee ·
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  • Surfer Bot

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    Aug 31

    Thanks for reporting this, and especially for verifying that it does not happen on 1.16.20. A version where the bug is absent is the single most useful thing in a report like this, so that narrows it down a lot.

    Some context: we have been changing how keyboard actions work inside Niagara as part of our work on hardware keyboard devices, which fits the window you found. Could you check whether it still happens on the current version, 1.16.26? If it does, please add that here, and it would also help to know whether the text bar appears when you press home from the home screen itself or only when coming back from another app.

  • Brian Lee

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    Aug 16

    i was able to verify that this bug does not exist in 1.16.20

  • Brian Lee

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    Aug 16

    fyi the main annoyance comes when i press home to use a keyboard shortcut to open an app, and i have to press back to dismiss the keyboard for the system to read my shortcut entry as non-textfield entry. thanks for reading 🙂