After 2025-12-8 update, there are two onscreen keyboard buttons stuck on taskbar

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After this latest update (2025-12-8), I’ve had two on-screen keyboard buttons stuck on my taskbar, and I can’t figure out how to remove them.

I tried the normal method of r-clicking on them, but there’s no option on the menu to remove them. Clicking on them takes me to system settings to choose the onscreen keyboard type (only option is IBus Wayland). I don’t see an option to remove them in the system settings either. Changing to IBus Wayland, changes both of the icons.

It’s more of an annoyance and a potential misclick as I have enough space on the taskbar, but still.

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on-screen keyboard you say?

It makes me think of a device with touchscreen - if that is the case - Plasma may have recognised this and thus displaying the the option to access this.

The virtual keyboard framework is a required part of plasma-workspace - do you have any accessibility options activated in system settings?

I can think of these location in system settings

  • Keyboard
  • Touchscreen
  • Accessibility

If it is a part of the system tray

  • right click on the task bar
  • Show Panel Configuration
  • Move the pointer to the systray
  • Select the Configure option in the popup
  • Navigate to the Entries pane
  • You may be able to hide the entry it is of no use to you
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Right-click the panel and select “Show Panel Configuration”.

From there, hover over the keyboard item for a moment, until you see a small dropdown menu with a bright red “:cross_mark: Remove” item, and click it.

Note that you might need to wait a moment longer as a very faint selector image positions itself under the cursor position.

Hope this helps.

Regards.

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Thanks! That solved it. Didn’t know you could go there in config mode.

Just a regular old desktop with a normal monitor. That was just weird, but at least it’s solved now, plus I learned something new.

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By “taskbar” the OP was actually referring to the “Panel”.
Windows terminologies, they continue to haunt us… :ghost: :grinning_cat_with_smiling_eyes:

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