Persistent On-Screen Keyboard on Fresh Install of Zorin OS 18

[Forpli]

• make sure gnome shell extension manager is installed
• open extension manager
• scroll down to 'Zorin Screen Keyboard Panel Button' and switch it off.

Screen keyboard magically appeared and won't go away

I just installed Zorin 17.3 on what was a Win 10 computer a few days ago. Yesterday while I was typing in the text editor I moved the mouse cursor near the bottom of the screen and the taskbar flashed off and back on. Prior to that I'd installed the 'minimize all' button in the far right end of the systray and put the computer in suspend mode. After waking it from suspend that icon was gone. Back to the taskbar flashing off and on, when it came back that icon was back. Also an tiny keyboard ico…