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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How to show mouse pointer on a touched location?
I am using Ubuntu22.04 with a touchscreen.
By default, the mouse pointer is displayed when the user operates the mouse, but nothing is displayed when the user touches the touchscreen.
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Install Ubuntu 23.04 surface tablets
Installed Ubuntu 23.04 on Surface Go 3 and everything works.
Installed Ubuntu 23.04 on Surface Pro 7 no touch screen.
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Touchscreen Issue on Ubuntu 23.04
UPDATE: I perused dmesg some more and found the following that coincides every time I try to load the goodix_ts module.
[98756.097733] gpio gpiochip0: (INT3453:00): gpiochip_lock_as_irq: tried to flag ...
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Long press on touch screen does not perform long press action but opens context menu
I have a React application that i am running on Chromium. The application has a portion for connecting to VNC in which i need to perform a long press action on a touch display but instead it treats ...
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Keep keyboard from turning off in tablet mode (wayalnd) on 2 in 1 laptop
When I put my asus vivobook (running ubuntu 23.04, wayland) to tablet mode, the internal keyboard and touchpad turns off, which is expected behavior. However it also turns off my external (wireless) ...
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Update touchscreen config in Ubuntu 22 under Wayland
I've spent a considerable amount time attempting to invert my XY axis on a touchscreen monitor on Ubuntu 22.04 under Wayland to no avail. Adding configuration details in "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf....
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Cant drag/move (non-snap-installed) window using touchscreen
I've got Ubuntu 23.04 on my Surface Go 2. And I can mostly use my touchscreen just fine. But when trying to drag/move windows of apps, that I didn't install using snap-store like Firefox Dev. and ...
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How to disable touchscreen on my Ubuntu 22 LTS version. It is booted alongside windows on my HP Pavilion 15T laptop
On running xinput list showing:
WARNING: running xinput against an Xwayland server. See the xinput man page for details.
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
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Disable touchscreen fingerswipes on ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
I want to disable the possibility for the user that he can't use for example the 3-fingerswipe for changing workspaces. I want him to stay being locked in one program and can't access the OS.
I ...
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Autorotation screen doesn't work after installing Ubuntu 23.04
Before installing Ubuntu 23.04, on my Lenovo laptop the autorotation property works and the button to enable and disable this property appears on the top right menu. I can rotate the screen and the ...
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Drag and drop incompatible with scrolling in Firefox using touchscreen
I have been testing my touchscreen to perform some operations on web browsers and we are running into an issue. When we don't change the MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 then the drag and drop works but it doesn't ...
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I have a Lenovo Flex 5 16ABR8. I've just dual boot installed Ubuntu Studio 23.04 and the touchpad and touchscreen do not work (work under Windows 11)
I found a bug that I think may be the issue (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216804). It looks like a kernel patch was made to the 6.2 kernel that applied to other Lenovo Flex 5 laptops, ...
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Touchscreen : apply calibration when plugged
I have a NUC unit to made a kiosk application in a store which runs on Ubuntu.
To make calibration permanent, I made a startup application with xinput commands. Everything IS working fine.
But, NUC ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 touch on rotated screen not working
I use an Orange Pi 5 with ubuntu 22.O4 (https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip) with Wayland activated
I have a webkiosk like application with a rotated screen of 90 degrees. I can rotate the ...
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Touchpad disabled after folding convertible
I have a convertible Laptop, that is a Laptop with a Touchscreen that can be folded over, so it becomes basically a chubby Tablet.
When folding the device, the keyboard and touchpad disable themselves,...
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Ubuntu 22.04 i2c
I have install Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS on my Asus T300
Kernel:
Linux sea-console 5.19.0-43-generic #44~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon May 22 13:39:36 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Broken Touch Display, Cannot Login: 20.04
I'm running 20.04 on a Lenovo Idea Pad with a broken touch screen. I disable the touch screen via Xorg once I'm in the desktop, post login.
However, the login screen still has the touch screen enabled ...
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Cannot Calibrate Touchscreen Using xinput-calibrator
I am trying to calibrate an older touchscreen for Ubuntu 20.04 (server w/ Xorg). The touchscreen in question is a General Touch RTL224. Out of the box I can plug the USB touchscreen in and it is ...
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Configure touch pen on gnome
I've just bought a touch pen, it's one of those with a battery inside, doesn't pair via bluetooth. It's simply turned on or off and, when it's on, it should work on a touchscreen.
It works flawlessly ...
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How do I enable the touchscreen in 22.04 on my HP laptop?
I recently bought a new laptop and the touchscreen is not recognized in Ubuntu. I am not sure how to proceed as on my old laptop (also an HP) and work laptop (a Lenovo) the touchscreens worked ...
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Disable Touchscreen Dell XT3 on Ubuntu 23.04
Laptop Make and Model
Dell Latitude XT3
Memory : 4 GB
Processor : Intel® Core™ i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz × 4
Graphics : Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
The Problem
Touchscreen becomes glitchy ...
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Calibration error
I use this documentation for touchscreen calibration https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touchscreen
The drivers have already been installed by the OS
I start execution from the Calibration point
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How can i whitelist one specific device using udev rule and block everything else?
I want to whitelist a USB Touch screen and block everything else. I have written hundreds of UDEV rules but none of them seem to work. I can block every single connected USB device but can't find a ...
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0% battery level of touchscreen
My Ubuntu is reporting at Settings->Power a device "CUST0000:00 04F3:2751" as 0% battery.
I just discovered that this device is my laptop touchscreen.
Sometimes I receive a message saying ...
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Three finger gestures only working in touchscreen
I have just updated to Ubuntu 22 and tried using 3 finger gestures.
Although these work fine when i use the touchscreen, they do not work in the trackpad...
Any idea how to fix this?
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Turn off screen keyboard when using touchscreen
Screen keyboard always show up every time I tap on a blank space or input field on the touch screen on my laptop. I've already turned off screen keyboard in settings -> accessibility -> screen ...
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How can I log source of mouse input?
For some reason mouse pointer sometimes teleports to the top of the screen and starts repeatedly clicking.
Is there some easy way to record mouse inputs and their source? I am aware of xinput list and ...
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How to automatically keep the touchscreen aligned with a specific monitor?
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
I have this command in a login script:
xinput map-to-output "Wacom ISDv4 4001 Finger touch" eDP-1-1
It works perfectly...until I change the monitor layout:
When the ...
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Touch Screen not working on MS Surface Pro 4 after install (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS)
I installed Ubuntu on a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and the touch screen doesn't work. All other answers for this question are of older versions of Ubuntu. Everything else works it's just the touchscreen.
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Focus jumps all over the place when I type, usually going to mouse position
I can't type at all. The focus (cursor) jumps to where the mouse is and sometimes highlights text and deletes it.
Sometimes focus goes to other visible windows.
My system:
Dell XPS 13 with touch ...
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Touch friendly screenshot shortcut
Is there a way to get a shortcut icon to the side or top bar, that'll trigger the gnome screenshot utility, that is normally started with the print-key?
I'm using a Thinkpad Yoga convertible, so it's ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.5 - Booting up system on Firefox in Kiosk mode
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Hello everyone, I'm trying to start up my Ubuntu 20.04.5 machine in kiosk mode. I want my system to start up Firefox in kiosk mode right after it boots up. I'm almost done but I have trouble ...
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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.
xinput ...
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Disabling Touchscreen on a Lenovo ThinkPad T15 Gen2
I'm running Ubuntu 22.10 (Wayland) on a Lenovo ThinkPad T15 Gen2 laptop, and while this particular laptop came configured with a touchscreen, I never use it intentionally: on occasion I've managed to ...
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Onda Oliver Book Ubuntu lines on screen
I installed Ubuntu 22.10 Desktop on an Onda Oliver Book. This is a 10 inch Windows tablet with keyboard.
Intel Gemini Lake refresh, Pentium N5030 Intel® UHD Graphics 605
Installation and also ...
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Stop MATE panel being dragged with touch
I have a touch screen computer running Ubuntu MATE 22.04.
When I accidentally touch on the MATE panel, the panel is dragged to another location, which is very inconvenient, because sometimes I end up ...
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Touch sensor does not rotate after flipping the screen orientation
This question is for computers without a rotation sensor. For computers with a rotation sensor, autorotate can work in GNOME and KDE. See this question.
I have a touch screen Chromebook (natively) ...
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Mouse disappears when touching touchscreen Ubuntu 22.10 @ XPS 15
Every time I touch the screen on my XPS15 my mouse disappears. I then need to press the super button and move the mouse for it to re-appear. I simply do not use touch for this reason.
Moreover, the ...
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Kubuntu stylus pen mode for Panasonic touchpad problem
The Panasonic FZ-M1 offers an input mode by finger or stylus pen.
Has anyone been able to activate the stylus mode on a Intel core m5-6y57 in Ubuntu?
I was able to use the stylus pen mode on FZ-M1 ...
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Touchpad on Lenovo 300e 2nd gen not working (Ubuntu 22.04 LTS)
I feel like I've tried everything and I'm at a loss. Seems to work completely fine on Windows, doesn't work on Ubuntu.
Keyboard and touchscreen work, mouse cursor is also present. Also, nothing shows ...
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Onscreen keyboard cut-off (spacebar, ctrl, alt off-screen)
Running a freshly installed and updated Ubuntu 22.10 Desktop for Raspberry Pi (64-bit) with the 7 inch touch screen, the onscreen keyboard appears to be rendering too low such that the Ctrl, Alt, and ...
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Is it possible to open files with a single click in touch screen and with usual double click when using mouse?
I am using Ubuntu MATE 22.04 in a touch screen chromebook.
Is it be possible to open files and directories with a single click when using the touch screen, and with the usual double clicks when using ...
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Lubuntu LXQT emulate right click for touchscreen tablet
I rescued an old tablet with Lubuntu 22.04.1 and most things work great with touch except for the actual desktop. I understand this is a difference between Gnome/KDE and LXQT - touchscreen options for ...
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how can i use my camera but witch app will change camreas
I have little problem witch the camera app. the laptop has 2 built in cameras and i tried using a app it didn't let me change to the second camera i don,t know how to fix it please help. I also tried ...
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Requesting Instruction to Reinstall Touchscreen on Acer Spin
I'm requesting instructions to install the ability to use the touchscreen for the Acer Spin SP314-53N.
After installing Ubuntu, I could no longer use the touchscreen.
Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is the current ...
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Navigation in Inkscape with touch screen 22.04
I recently got a PC with touch screen (ThinkPad-X1-Yoga-3rd). I have been using Inkscape for a long time by now but never with a "nice touch screen" as I have now. The experience with the ...
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Ubuntu 22.04, Mouse flickering, Keyboard not working (Touchscreen)
Today (2022-12-21) I updated my system. I am using 22.04 (as I did before).
But now the keys of the internal (thinkpad p15 laptop) and the external keyboard are not working anymore. The mouse is ...
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Why does mouse and keyboard input get disabled on the lock screen when the screen rotates?
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS on a Dell Inspiron. Sometimes after waking the laptop after it has been closed, the screen is in a different orientation (e.g. upside down presumably depending on how it ...
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The text selection of a touchscreen does not work in Chromium / Chromium based browsers. Does anyone know a solution?
On Windows, it is possible to first select a text in Chromium based browsers and then zoom the selection similar to a cell phone using the bars on the right and left (see picture).
Under Linux, this ...
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How to create a custom "touchscreen-like" mouse pointer theme in ubuntu 20.04
I have a system where I'm using a touchscreen as the USB mouse input for a desktop Ubuntu 20.04 system. I am using a driver (eGTouch) so that the touch screen is simply interpreted as a mouse, but ...
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