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Questions tagged [touch-screen]

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How do I disable the touch screen on my laptop?

My laptop has a touchscreen but I do not use this. How do I disable this functionality? I use Arch Linux. I figured I could try removing the related driver. According to this page the possible drivers are all named xf86-input*. However, it looks…
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Changing the way automatic screen rotation works in Gnome shell

I recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 3 11" convertible notebook. It works well with out-of-the-box with Ubuntu Gnome LTS 16.04.2 - WiFi, Bluetooth, even suspend and resume work without any issues so far. I noticed that Gnome 3 even allows the screen to…
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Touchscreen and mouse as separate inputs?

Can someone give me a good reference on how to achieve this, or just tell me how its done? Google isn't really helping me here, since it always tries to give me recommendations on touchpad :/
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Configure touchscreen on Debian?

I have got Samsung Q1 Ultra with Debian Squeeze on it. Everything works okay, except touchscreen. The arrow almost does not respond to touching -- it only moves once in a while to a random place after the screen being touched. I have tried to…
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Linux: Onscreen swipe keyboard

I injured my hand so that typing is now difficult. I have a touchscreen monitor on my laptop and am running Debian. Is there an on-screen keyboard which has swipe capabilities like the Google Keyboard on my android device? I know of Florence…
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Linux Tablet: Is there a way to enter a password with onscreen keyboard to unlock a LUKS crypto device during bootup?

I just installed Linux (Ubuntu, but it does not really matter) on an x86-based tablet. I also encrypted a partition which is mounted during bootup. Of course, one usually needs to enter the password to unlock the partition during bootup. Is there…
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Xorg - ignore first click event when resuming from Screen Blanking

Is it possible to somehow configure xorg to ignore the first mouse click when screen blanking is enabled ?? The reason is I have a touch screen in an embedded arch linux application which remains active during screen blanking, and the first touch of…
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Calibrating a touch-screen on dual monitors (one touch one not)

I am using Debian 9. I have a little PC with 2 in-built monitors that I intend to use as a point of sale. It has one monitor facing the customer (non-touch screen) and one facing the cashier (touch screen). Each monitor has a resolution of 1366 x…
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How to disable the on-screen keyboard when I use the touch screen?

I am using Fedora on a computer with touch screen. When was using Fedora 26 or older, the on-screen keyboard always pops up when I am using the touch screen (like when I selected gedit window, the on-screen keyboard shows, and I have to close it…
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Touchscreen is being recognized as a mouse in Arch Linux--how can I enable multi-touch with it and get it recognized as a touch screen?

I have a Lenovo Yoga 2 11" convertible laptop, and it has a touch screen that xinput tells me is: > xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave…
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How to disable my touch screen

My screen is cracked, and the touchscreen makes the courser spasm every once and a while. Is there any way i can fully disable it? As requested: Module Size Used by ctr 13023 2 ccm 17587 2…
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Change iio-sensors data via custom ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX

I have a tablet with builtin sensors which allow me automatic screen rotation, based on iio-sensors-proxy. However, the screen orientation is off, and I need to fix it. On it's GitHub page…
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Window manager and desktop environment for touchscreens

What are some good choices for desktop environments and window manager for touchscreens? Currently I am using XFCE with custom GTK settings for making the controls larger, but that is far from optimal. What is the current state of touch-screen…
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How to calibrate touch screen on Ubuntu 22.04?

We have a box connecting to a 20" vertical touch screen. When running Ubuntu 20.04 which runs X.org we used xinput_calibrator to calibrate the touch screen since it is vertical. However in Ubuntu 22.04 it by default runs Xwayland (which we found a…
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Touchscreen for ncurses, beyond mouse?

Does ncurses have any support for touch screen computers? Will a touch screen trigger the same events in ncurses that a mouse does? For example, does tapping on a touch screen produce a "mouse click" event in ncurses? I know that ncurses does…
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