Why "Caribou" starts even when Assistive Technology(AT) is disabled on system?

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Issue

  • Onscreen keyboard is disabled in GNOME settings, but Caribou starts on every Gnome session as D-Bus service.
  • Even when not used, Caribou seems to slowly grow in memory usage.
  • How to configure it to not start, and to not grow in memory usage?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • caribou-gtk3-module-0.4.16-1.el7.x86_64
  • python-caribou-0.4.16-1.el7.noarch
  • caribou-0.4.16-1.el7.x86_64

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