Unfortunately with Windows 11, I can't have a ctrl key with undocked keyboard and the docked keyboard covers the bottom of the screen where my layers were (among many things wrong with the W11 OSK).
I tried a registry hack to enable the Windows 8 keyboard, but encountered glitchy behavior with it wanting to open both the 8 and 11 keyboards
IDK why Microsoft decided to ruin so many things that were amazing/perfect in Windows 8 and 10. I had a few reasons to switch to 11.
I don't have this problem with other apps. Affinity is the only thing I use that wants to force keyboard commands down my throat, which is weird because I hear the ipad version offers a lot of touch friendly solutions which are bizarrely absent from Windows version.
I'm kicking myself for not figuring this out myself.