# Remove Keyboard from showing on touch screen/Tablet

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353>\
**Category:** Support, Troubleshooting, & Help\
**Tags:** apps, player\
**Created:** [May 17, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353 "2023-05-17T16:52:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![knowlec](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@knowlec](https://community.tulip.co/u/knowlec)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353/1 "2023-05-17T16:52:59Z")

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Hi,

is it possible to remove the keyboard from showing on the tulip player when connected to a touch screen monitor/Tablet?  
We have multiple tablets/touch screens that are connected to a keyboard so I don’t want a keyboard to show up when a text field is selected on the screen as it takes up a large portion of the screen.

I have disabled touch keyboard on the tablets and it doesn’t show up on the screen when using word/notepad/browsers etc.. but does when I use the tulip player?

any ideas?

thanks

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**Author:** ![ASharp-J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/asharp-j/32/3820_2.png) [@ASharp-J](https://community.tulip.co/u/ASharp-J)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353/2 "2023-09-19T13:15:29Z")

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I ran into the same behavior on a Systec terminal with physical keyboard. For some reason the Tulip app brings up the software keyboard.  
@knowlec, Did you find a solution to this?

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**Author:** ![thorsten.langner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@thorsten.langner](https://community.tulip.co/u/thorsten.langner)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353/3 "2023-09-19T14:08:42Z")

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I would almost call it a bug.  
I find Tulip should respect the environment setting.

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**Author:** ![yuhuan.pu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8797f3/32.png) [@yuhuan.pu](https://community.tulip.co/u/yuhuan.pu)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 1:34am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353/4 "2023-09-20T01:34:56Z")

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I have the same problem when I use the surface as the touch screen. Sometimes we will get two keyboard one is from tulip one is from windows itself.

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**Author:** ![ASharp-J](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/asharp-j/32/3820_2.png) [@ASharp-J](https://community.tulip.co/u/ASharp-J)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353/5 "2023-10-06T11:41:17Z")

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Hi  
Just an update on this.  
I ended up disabling startup of the windows service “_Touch keyboard and handwriting panel service_”. That appeared to have the desired effect and stopped the on screen keyboard completely and I now do not get it when activating Tulip app text fields.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/c/cc48c0a0560e2802eaaccdacc798f9daebc2db13.jpeg)

Now it behaves! 🙂  
Hope this can be an option for others as well.

Rgds  
Asger

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**Author:** ![Felix\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@Felix\_S](https://community.tulip.co/u/Felix_S)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/remove-keyboard-from-showing-on-touch-screen-tablet/8353/6 "2025-04-22T18:03:19Z")

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I encountered this same issue, but didn’t find that same service mentioned by @Asharp-J on my PC.

I found that you can instead directly edit the behavior of the Tulip Player. First, the touch keyboard must be fully disabled in windows System Settings.

 ![Screenshot 2025-04-22 195137](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/8/8b0a39601598b30f4722f82434ea6a77f63c9791.png)

Then, I ran opened a powershell prompt and ran the following command:

```auto
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('TULIP_PLAYER_DISABLE_TOUCH_KEYBOARD_FORCE_INVOKE', 'true', [EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

```

After then restarting the Tulip Player, the touchscreen keyboard no longer appeared.

–Felix