Questions tagged [touchscreen]
A touchscreen is a computer display that responds to tactile input. Touchscreens are often used as a supplement or replacement for a mouse; the user touches the object onscreen to be manipulated directly rather than clicks on it with a mouse pointer.
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Using an external touchscreen on Ubuntu 22.04 Wayland problem
I have an external AOC 16T2 touchscreen, which is recognized as an touchscreen.
In X11 this works fine in extended desktop/join displays after mapping the touch input to the external screen.
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PC wakes from suspend even when /proc/acpi/wakeup is disabled
PC Model: Thinkpad X1 Tablet Gen 2
OS: Linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
I have a Thinkpad X1 Tablet, and the keyboard is quite flexible which always wakes the PC up from sleep (the keyboard and the screen ...
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What does "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" really represent?
I'm very confused about format of "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" (especially about discrepancies between its mathematical definition and its "X server definition"), and due to ...
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Disable touchscreen while using pen
I just installed Ubuntu on my Lenovo L390. Works well.
Theres one problem tho: When using Krita, I use the built in pen to draw. Sadly, the touchscreen is still active, so a whole bunch of lines keep ...
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Caribou On Screen Keyboard Shift Key Not Working
I recently got a new Wacom Mobile Studio Pro 13. A tablet computer (no trackpad, no physical keyboard, just a few buttons on the left hand side, with a Wacom stylus).
When I first login into an ...
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Touchscreen is being recognized as a mouse
I plugged in a 3M touchscreen to my Linux PC. It appears as it recognizes it as a mouse. Here's my xinput output:
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⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
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how to disable gnome touchscreen keyboard entirely [duplicate]
I'm using ubuntu 17.04 with gnome shell 3.24.2 and the on-screen keyboard popping up keeps bugging me as my laptop has a hardware keyboard anyway. Is there any way to get rid of it completely?
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How do you detect physical screen flip on a 2-in-1 Notebook?
Making the display flip is pretty straight forward. I detected that on my Dell Inspiron 15-7568 I have the following setup:
$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3840 x 2160, maximum 32767 x ...
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Make a right click with Super ( or another key )+left click
I have an xps 13 (2015), I can't manage to make a right click with the touchscreen by any means.
I tought a good solution would be to make a Super+left click, a bit like the alt+left click to drag a ...
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TouchScreen recognized, but not working in 13.04
First, let me mention that one of the first things I tested was the fact that the touchscreen was operating during the GUI installation process. Now that we've established that...
After full ...
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Touchscreen on HP Envy x360 is not working with 18.04
When I tried Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on my HP envy x360, the touchscreen of the laptop is not working. How can I fix it?
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Touchscreen and additional external monitor
Soon I'll commence a PhD study with a strong focus on modelling. I'm lucky enough to have my supervisor offer me a laptop. Since besides making and running models I'll be making minutes of meetings ...
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Disable touch on Bamboo Touch&Pen CTH-460
Running Ubuntu 11.04.
Got a bamboo Touch&Pen CTH-460 and it works out of the box. The pen response works great but the finger response is horrible.
Is there a way to disable the finger response ...
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How to embed on-screen keyboard into gnome-screensaver 3.x unlock screen?
The gconf value /apps/gnome-screensaver/embedded_keyboard_enable in Oneiric no longer works obviously. Is there a way to show virtual keyboard in gnome-screensaver 3.x? Does similar dconf value exist?
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How to get on-Screen Keyboard (OSK) to work like a mobile device
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 on a 2-in-1 laptop. Out of the box the OSK is almost unusable. Is there a way to make it behave more like a native mobile device?
What it does now:
If I have OSK turned off ...
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Enable touchscreen on Lenovo Yoga 11s Ubuntu 14.04
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my Lenovo Yoga 11s (Ivybridge).
when I first ran the installation, the touchpad didn't work but the touchscreen did.
I foolishly tried to install to an SD Card only ...
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Disable touch screen
I just installed Ubuntu on an old Dell laptop where Windows 10 was out of service life. This computer is a touch screen. The screen has been cracked for years. Whenever I did a major window upgrade ...
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EGalax touchscreen no input on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm trying a Egalax touchscreen to work for a TPV on Ubuntu 18.04, but everything I tried didnt work at all. I tried to make it work with "calibrate touchscreen" as Ubuntu seems to detect the screen ...
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Unable to get touchscreen to work on Lenovo Flex 3
I have a Lenovo Flex 3 laptop, which has a touchscreen. I have it dual-booting Windows 10 (OEM) and Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. On Windows the touchscreen works fine. On Ubuntu, however it does not work, even ...
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Chrome 35 stopped touch interaction after Chrome update on Ubuntu 14.04
After updating Chrome to Version Google Chrome 35.0.1916.114 on Ubuntu 14.04, Chrome does not respond to touch events anymore at a first start.
Chrome is invoked at start up via a script by calling
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Running 13.04 on Dell XPS 12?
Will Ubuntu 13.04 run well on my Dell XPS 12?
Basically, I want the most up to date Ubuntu software working on my computer and with touch support.
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Touch screen support Asus EP121
Has anyone installed 12.04 on the Asus EP121, and if so, what works?
Of all things, the touch screen would be the most important. Has anyone had any luck with it?
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How to change touch screen functionality from a relative to an absolute pointing device?
I'm using a Serial Wacom Tablet touch device on an HP EliteBook 2740p.
The capacitive finger touch device (Serial Wacom Tablet touch) works, but is set to relative positioning instead of absolute. ...
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Rotate touch screen input to match display rotation on Wayland (Ubuntu 22.04)?
I am running Ubuntu 22.04 on a Raspberry Pi 4. I'm using a touch screen display (display is HDMI, touch is USB) which has a native Portrait orientation. The touch works perfectly out of the box in the ...
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Active Pen support in Linux for HP X360
i have recently bought a HP Pavilion x360 14-ba017ng with only Windows atm, but i want to install a Linux Distribution on this notebook.
My only concern is that this notebook has active pen, tablet ...
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Why the Onboard on-screen keyboard doesn't auto-show in google-chrome?
I've got google-chrome-stable 59.0.3071.115-1 that doesn't auto-show the on-screen keyboard when clicking on the text fields.
All other applications like firefox and gnome-terminal show and hide it ...
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Which package should I file a bug against for pen input?
I have a Fujitsu LifeBook T900, and I have a problem with Ubuntu on it. This laptop has a touch screen meant to be used with an accompanying stylus (i.e. it only works with the stylus, and not with ...
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Switching from Ubuntu Desktop to Ubuntu Tablet
I have been considering buying a Lenovo Yoga 11S (I am aware that I will have to recompile the kernel due to the wireless driver). My main concern is having a good experience in both laptop mode and ...
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Does the Thinkpad X41 Touchscreen work with Ubuntu?
I was just wondering if laptop touch screens, such as the one on the ThinkPad X41 were compatible with Ubuntu. I have my new stylus coming in the mail, so I can't see for myself yet.
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Restoring touch functionality for a touchscreen laptop?
I just installed Ubuntu with KDE on Latitude 5289, it's a Dell laptop that normally has some pretty nifty touchscreen functionality. For example, on Windows, this machine would be able to scroll up ...
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Issues using Nautilus on a touchscreen
Nautilus is hard to use on my Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 vPro laptop's touchscreen, both in Wayland and Xorg desktops.
Tooltip windows pop-up with folder descriptions that block the click on folders or ...
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How to use a touchscreen in a multi-monitor setting with Wayland?
I would like to connect an external touchscreen to my laptop (Ubuntu 18.10, GNOME).
The touchscreen works fine when used as the only monitor (disabling Laptop screen). However, I would like to use ...
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Right click on touchscreen for Ubuntu 18.04
I got a new Dell Inspiron 7373 and everything is going fine, but I can't copy and paste files using the touchscreen because I can't send a "right click" action. In keyboard mode, I can do a ...
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HP Envy x360 Ryzen 5 - status of known issues
There have been numerous issues getting the Envy x360 with Ryzen 5 to cooperate with Ubuntu. Several issues have been solved, and several remain.
I am currently running Ubuntu 18.04 with Linux kernel ...
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How to make a script for touchscreen to run after resume?
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my ASUS TP200SA which is a 2in1 laptop. I have recently noticed a bug about touchscreen, whenever I put the system on sleep and wake it up, touchscreen doesn't work. ...
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HP envy x360 15.6 touchscreen will not work
just got HP envy x360, seems to be a hybrid of the envy and spectre. Black case, 1080 display, spectre wifi card, and many other things I didnt order but they upgraded to and sent from China. Kinda ...
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add touchscreen right click options unity
I have Ubuntu unity on tablet and I know that a 2 finger click right clicks but on small areas like dock icons I can't do it. On Windows I could touch and hold for 2 seconds. How can I accomplish this ...
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How to disable a touchscreen on Surface pro 3
Long story short, I dropped my surface and the screen cracked.
This is causing it to have false touches pretty frequently. I managed to disable it on my windows partition where I'm typing this from. ...
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Upgrading from 16.04 daily to 16.04 LTS
I have a Yoga 900 and I would really like to install Ubuntu on the machine. But the trackpad and touchscreen do not work in Ubuntu natively. There is a fix by installing Ubuntu 16.04 daily on Yoga ...
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HP TouchSmart 600 Touchscreen driver
I have a HP TouchSmart 600 and I installed Linux on the machine. Everything runs fine except the touchscreen.
I tryed it with the newest Ubuntu 32/64bit and also with Linux Mint 32/64bit.
Found this ...
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How to enable multi-touch gestures on Lenovo Thinkpad W510 w/touchscreen - 12.04 w/Unity
I am wondering how the user in this video got his W510 configured to use multi-touch with his touchscreen. I did a sudo apt-get install utouch but I need some handholding in where to go next. http://...
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What is the easiest way to launch Dash with a single-touch screen and auto-hidden launcher?
There is a lot of devices with a single-touch screen and the Oneiric Unity has no always-visible Dash icon. So, how can I get it without keyboard providing that moving pointer to the edge is almost ...
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Jukebox Software/Distro
I've seen a couple older threads that don't provide any answers still in active production so I thought I would ask again. I am looking for a jukebox I can install on ubuntu, or I would even take one ...
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Screen auto rotate only working in live USB, not when installed?
new to Ubuntu and just installed it on a Lenovo N23 with a touch screen.
The auto-rotation worked fine on the live media USB and had an option to lock and unlock but after the full installation, I'm ...
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Enabling and disabling touchscreen with Wayland enabled
If you Google how to disable a touchscreen using Wayland, the most common results suggests adding an udev rule. In fact, that's how my local install on a HP Inspiron 5379 is setup:
~ via 💎 v3.0.2
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Screen Rotation on 20.04 with Gnome 3.36 not working as expected
I have the following problem:
Screen rotation works like a charm but there is an annoying problem:
When i try to open a video in fullscreen mode the screen orientation switches after about 2 seconds (...
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No Response on Dell XPS-13 2-in-1 Touch Screen; What Can I Run to Diagnose?
I am unable to get any response from my touch screen on my Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (2020). It works fine on Windows (using Windows 10) but doesn't respond to any touch-events with Ubuntu booted.
From ...
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Ubuntu 20.04: On screen keyboard pops up whenever clicked on text input box. It should only pop up when touched
I've recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 from Ubuntu 19.10. I'm using Lenovo Thinkpad L380.
In 20.04, the on-screen keyboard was disabled and I enabled it by following this guide - Use an on-screen ...
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xinput list "UNKNOWN"
I am trying to get the stylus working properly on a One Netbook One Mix 3s tiny laptop.
This laptop is compatible with microsoft pens (I.e. it's using n-trig technology) but as far as I can tell the ...
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Can I have touch scrolling with gnome-terminal?
Question as title. Is there a way to get gnome-terminal to obey touch scrolling?
I have a touchscreen laptop. Everything else I've tested "just works" (I can scroll web pages by touch using chromium ...