How do you stop antler screen keyboard from opening?

Question

The screen keyboard pops up in Catfish and some other programs. It obscures part of the desktop and will not close without a SIGKILL.

Is there some way to stop this obnoxious (to me) behavior?

Answer 1

① To make the keyboard disappear from screen kill antler processes.

② To stop it appearing in a session, kill caribou processes.

③ To stop in future sessions, remove caribou from start-up processes.

Answer 2

Antler is a part of the Caribou-antler package, and is listed as "caribou" in the Archlinux extra repository.

pacman -Qii lists caribou as a dependency of gnome shell, but removing caribou can be done without apparent problems by using the command:sudo pacman -Rdd caribou

To avoid the caribou package from being updated or re-installed, add this line to /etc/pacman.conf.

IgnorePkg   = caribou

Eventually, gnome-shell will be updated in the repository, When gnome-shell is updated in the repository, the upgrade will fail because of the now ignored caribou package with this message:

resolving dependencies...
warning: ignoring package caribou-n.n.nn-n
warning: cannot resolve "caribou", a dependency of "gnome-shell"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      gnome-shell

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N]

Select y and enter to allow other packages to be upgraded.

Then force the gnome-shell upgrade with this command:

sudo pacman -Sdd gnome-shell

Your system will now be fully upgraded.

To undo this change, simply delete or make a comment of the IgnorePkg = caribou line in /etc/pacman.conf, then update your system with pacman.