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Do you have any idea how hard it is to type a password in when you have ibus-typing-booster enabled by default on a PC? The descision to include this is so far beyond stupid I just can't even. You set your keyboard during install time, why in the world would you enforce this absulote garbage on everyone? typing a password with predictive text popping up is a privacy nightmare. What happened to security? You could let people select their device type during install so that we aren't all forced into this level of stupid. If feels like you have these issues: Blind Probing: The installer only checks generic hardware flags (like looking for a battery indicator or an I2C touchscreen controller).' False Positives: If you are using a modern desktop motherboard with Bluetooth, or a monitor with a built-in USB controller that registers as "touch capable," Fedora assumes you are on a mobile-adjacent device.Aggressive Packages: Because it blindly flags your PC as a "mobile device," it forces the ibus-typing-booster mobile keyboard packages to run during the initial user setup, completely ignoring that you are sitting at a desk typing with a physical 104-key plastic keyboard. You are better than this. You don't force poor UI design just because you are to lazy to add a device selection screen. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install fedora 44 2.try to type a password 3.get frustrated because stupid descisions were made Actual Results: I had serious issues trying to get a nominally secure password to login. Expected Results: I expect a PC to act like a PC and not get moronic tablet defaults pushed onto a PC. At the absolute least I would expect an extremely visible toggle on the login page, but you couldn't even be bothered to do that. Additional Information: The fact that this isn't even easily disabled shows just how out of touch you are with reality. You should be completely ashamed of this level of stupid.
I have no idea what you are doing - and your tone is quite inappropriate. Typing Booster should never be a default input source unless you make it one. Which image did you install?
I did a default install of fedora 44 kde, That's it. I didn't choose special packages I didn't install random software. This happened right from the base install. ibus-typing-booster was installed automatically as part of the Fedora KDE installation—not manually or as an application dependency. Verified chain: - On April 22, 2026, the original Fedora image build installed @kde-desktop-environment. - That environment includes Fedora’s input-methods package group. - ibus-typing-booster is a default package in input-methods. - DNF recorded its installation reason as Group. then on july 9 I did a system update and thats when ibus typing booster somehow got enabled. Something as intrusive as that should have an easy disable right on the login manager, and in the base ui under keyboard management. after a bunch of looking, seems Fedora’s graphical-session startup started IBus automatically.
(In reply to vorlmaldor from comment #2) > - On April 22, 2026, the original Fedora image build installed > @kde-desktop-environment. > - That environment includes Fedora’s input-methods package group. > - ibus-typing-booster is a default package in input-methods. Right it is installed by default in most Fedora editions/spins. > then on july 9 I did a system update and thats when ibus typing booster > somehow got enabled. That should not be the case: ie that is not supposed to happen. > Something as intrusive as that should have an easy > disable right on the login manager, and in the base ui under keyboard > management. > > after a bunch of looking, seems Fedora’s graphical-session startup started > IBus automatically. I am not sure what happened but sounds like something changed on the KDE or ibus side perhaps. If you know what versions of kde/plasma and ibus/ibus-typing-booster changed that might be helpful information. We will try to have a look anyway, thank you for reporting this.
What version of KDE Plasma?
vorlmaldor> typing a password with predictive text popping up is a privacy nightmare. What happened to security? Where exactly are you typing that password?
Is that problem with typing the password on the display manager? You write “I had serious issues trying to get a nominally secure password to login”. If the problem is during login, that sounds like it happens in the display manager. If so, which display manager is used? Is it gdm? lightdm? sddm? Something else?
during login plasma-login-manager-6.7.2-1.fc44
I tried plasma-login-manager now, no ibus process is running while I the plasma-login-manager screen is shown. mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-20260:~$ sudo systemctl enable plasmalogin --now Created symlink '/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service' → '/usr/lib/systemd/system/plasmalogin.service'. mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-20260:~$ ps aux | grep ibus mfabian 11144 0.0 0.0 231444 2540 pts/0 S+ 15:59 0:00 grep --color=auto ibus mfabian@Fedora-Workstation-Live-44-20260:~$ Is an ibus process running for you? A few minutes ago I used gdm instead of plasmalogin and ibus is running while gdm is shown. But there I had no problems either. But default, ibus is running for the `gdm-greeter-2` user, **but** ibus-typing-booster is not running. If I enable the OSK (on-screen-keyboard) by using the accessibility button at the lower right corner, then ibus-typing-booster is started. But that still doesn't cause any problems during password input as input methods are disabled on the password input field.
Created attachment 2148595 [details] Enabling OSK on gdm I can enable OSK on gdm as shown on this screenshot. This enables typing booster for use by OSK, but still causes no problems with password input as input methods are disabled on the password field. Is some on-screen-keyboard used on you plasmalogin display manager? I don't get that.
Created attachment 2148596 [details] OSK used on gdm After enabling OSK, I can use it on gdm. Typing booster is running in the background, but not used on the password field.
(In reply to vorlmaldor from comment #7) > during login > > plasma-login-manager-6.7.2-1.fc44 Do you see some on-screen-keyboard during login? Something similar to the OSK used by Gnome?
A screenshot/photo would be helpful indeed.
Can you help us a bit more to figure out what actually happens? Add more detailed information, screenshots, videos, whatever ... Currently we cannot reproduce this.
Created attachment 2153057 [details] updates that were completed before the issue started updates that were completed before the issue started
missed the emails sorry. These were the updates done right before the issue. I can't give screenshots right now, but I can reinstall and enable that package but screenshots are still hard since its in the login screen.
If it is possible got you to take a screenshot with your phone and attach it here, that would be helpful. Actually we were wondering if it could be the new long-press feature in KDE/qt perhaps.
(In reply to vorlmaldor from comment #15) > missed the emails sorry. These were the updates done right before the issue. > I can't give screenshots right now, but I can reinstall and enable that > package but screenshots are still hard since its in the login screen. Can you still reproduce it?