[PowerRename] Input impossible in search/replace fields

[ClemGit]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.55.0

Running as admin

• Yes

Area(s) with issue?

PowerRename

Steps to reproduce

Select a bunch of files to rename.
Try to input your search/replace strings, nothing typed from keyboard gets displayed.
You can only delete with the 'x' the previous entry, select entries from the history, but impossible to input new entries.

✔️ Expected Behavior

To be able to type in characters

❌ Actual Behavior

You type on keyboard keys and nothing happens.

Other Software

No response

[Aaron-Junker]

Please make sure that the Touch keyboard and handwriting panel service is running. And if not please start it and try it again.

[ClemGit]

Hi Aaron-Junker,
Why would these need to be running when on a desktop computer?
The tool used to work fine in older versions (before the new interface) without these services.
Thank you

[ClemGit]

Note that I've tried starting the service and relaunching PT with no luck.

[Aaron-Junker]

/bugreport

[ghost]

Hi there!

We need a bit more information to really debug this issue. Can you add a "Report Bug" zip file here? You right click on our system tray icon and just go to report bug. Then drag the zipfile from your desktop onto the GitHub comment box in this issue. Thanks!

[Aaron-Junker]

Hi Aaron-Junker,
Why would these need to be running when on a desktop computer?

It does more then the name suggests. This is why the name got changed in a recent dev build of Windows 11

[ClemGit]

PowerToysReport_2022-02-03-10-48-00.zip

[User-ABE]

Same issue for me, cince 3-4 versions
PowerToysReport_2022-02-03-14-07-05.zip
; bug report attached
Thanks

[niels9001]

@crutkas @stefansjfw do we have a doc / wiki page explaining how to turn on the handwriting/touch service and why it matters for WinUI? I can't seem to find the original topic with instructions.

[crutkas]

Not documented but I proposed #15022

[crutkas]

This is a dup then of #14514 (comment)

[ClemGit]

After reading through the comment mentioned by @crutkas and indeed rebooting the machine, it works when the service is enabled. In my previous test, I started the service but did not restart the machine.

[User-ABE]

UPDATE: issue solved activating "TabletInputService" (that's the name of "Touch keyboard and..." in my Win10 system)
After restarting the problem was over. Thanks everybody

[crutkas]

I’m wondering, why did everyone turn it off?

[ClemGit]

I’m wondering, why did everyone turn it off?

In my case, there are a multitude of services which run on Windows by default that are not needed. So to limit the amount of things running which I have no use for, I turned it off.
Little did I know that something named after and likely originally used only for tablet mode, would become a dependency for WinUI as a whole as seems to suggest the comment from @Aaron-Junker.

I must admit, not a big fan of the new UI to be honest.