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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Launch VCMI on 800x480 screen?
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Because HoMM3 was made in dark ages of 800x600 resolution VCMI requires minimum of
800x600
VCMI performs check, via SDL, and crashes itself if pixel resolutions is too small (so no, ...
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Best way to run a touchscreen app in kiosk mode on Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm an embedded dev who switched from weak ARM to powerful Intel Atom hardware, dedicated for running a touchscreen Qt app.
I decided to stop bothering with custom Busybox OS images and use a minimal ...
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hp envy x360 touchpad not recognized 20.04.1
I recently downloaded unbuntu linux on my machine it’s the newest version of the HP Envy x360 and it’s touchpad and touchscreen are not being recognized on any version of linux. By this I mean they ...
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Lenovo IdeaPad C340 [duplicate]
I have just installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS as a dual boot (with Windows 10) on my newly aquired Lenovo IdeaPad C340, and I have two problems.
The first one is that when I start it (or restart it) it ...
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ubuntu 20.04 touchscreen doesn't work on Lenovo ideapad flex 5
I recently bought a Lenovo Flex 5 laptop, which has a touchscreen. I installed Ubuntu 20.04, and now I have it dual-booting Windows 10 (OEM) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. On Windows the touchscreen works fine....
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Mapping multiple touch screens persistently (Current it resets after session locked or when plugged to a different USB port)
I have a touch screen laptop (Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 2, Ubuntu 20.04) connected to an external touch screen monitor. The touch screens' mapping don't work at plug-in so I followed this guide to map the ...
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Lenovo Yoga 12 - Wacom Touchscreen stops functioning after 'Suspend'
Have two of these laptops that I'm attempting to get the touchscreen to function properly on.
For seven days now and no success. . .
Installed Xubuntu 20 on the 2nd laptop. No dual booting or anything ...
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eTurboTouch does not work on Xubuntu Focal Fossa
I installed Xubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on an old Medion Akoya P4001 D (probably dates back to 2010).
Everything works fine, except the touchscreen; the system does not respond to me putting my finger on the ...
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Installing driver for touchscreen
I got a touchscreen monitor and want to install the driver to my Ubuntu 20.04. The driver software is TouchKit. In the installation guide, this is what written:
Rebuild the TouchKit driver.
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Ubuntu on lenovo yoga: touchscreen and audio issues
I bought a Lenovo yoga 7i and I initially installed Ubuntu 20.04.1, but some components did not work.
Searching online and reading the answers to this question:
ubuntu lenovo yoga touch screen not ...
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Touchscreen stops working after login
Running ubuntu 20.04 LTS on a yoga laptop, the touchscreen works perfectly at the log in screen, but when it brings me to the desktop enviroment it stops. this is a completly fresh install with ...
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Ubuntu lenovo yoga touch screen not working
I'm very new to Linux/Ubuntu. I have a Lenovo Yoga where I just installed Ubuntu 20.04.1, everything is fine but the Touchscreen doesn't work.
I was reading a bit how to do it but is very confusing, ...
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Touchscreen functionality for Kogan Atlas C250 / Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
I've just installed Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS on a new Kogan Atlas C250
Is there a way to get the touchscreen working? I've tried to search but found nothing specific that helped. I've also followed the ...
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About installing new desktop environment on Ubuntu
I am a new user of Linux. I recently install surface linux kernel following this so that i can use touchscreen on my surface pro. Now i want to try a new desktop environment (maybe KDE) on it. So here ...
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Touchscreen not working on Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5
touchscreen on my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 is not working and neither is the pen. I tried following this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/1234852/928890 but it didn't work. Are there any other options ...
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way to roll back to a state prior latest software update
I have been having this issue for a while where the mouse pointer suddenly starts jumping to top right corner and poping the system menu all the time. Gnome becomes unusable and i can only putty to my ...
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Touchcreen display problem Ubuntu 20.04
I have Dell Inspirion 11. 3000 series.
Display is touchscreen and I switched from Windows to Ubuntu 20.04.
Since then I have problems with display, it randomly displays something I didn't click.
It's ...
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How to map external touch screen to ignore laptop in multimonitor setup?
Kubuntu 20.04 with extended display. Laptop screen has no touch. External screen is a touchscreen. When touching the center of the external screen, the mouse points at the border between two screens. ...
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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.
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No Ubuntu touchscreen driver
So I have been looking for drivers for CMN1406 monitor. Last week my Touchscreen stopped receiving inputs. It still displays. I have searched for this CMN1406 driver, but I couldn't find one.
Edit: My ...
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How to change default screen for touch/stylus when using a dual screen setup on a tablet?
I am currently using Kubuntu 20.4 on the Dell Latitude 5175 2 in 1 tablet. I use the tablet with an external TV connected to use a Dual-Screen setup for web development. Every time I boot the computer,...
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Enable / disable on-screen keyboard using command line
Currently, I can navigate to "accessibility settings" and turn the on-screen keyboard on or off using the settings GUI.
How can I do this via the command line? so that it may be made a part ...
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External Display screws up stylus pen cursor position
I'm working on a HP Envy X360 Ryzen Laptop(13-ag0xxx ) Ubuntu 20.04.
When I add an external (non-touch) screen to the laptop, the location of the HP pen on the laptop-screen is not correct anymore. As ...
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Wacom Bamboo Ink Stylus makes notifications appear on screen contact
Whenever I have my Wacom Bamboo Ink stylus touch the screen, a notification appears that says "Tablet battery low. Tablet is in low power (6%)". I assume this is a driver issue, since I am ...
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Can't Authenticate with Builtin On Screen Keyboard?
I recently lost the ability to authenticate with onscreen keyboard, for some reason? I have 20.04 installed on a Windows Tablet so need touchscreen keyboard. It pops up but can't type passwords or ...
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Dell XPS 9530 touchscreen not working on 20.04
I had it working on my previous Ubuntu 16.04 installation, but I can't remember how I made it work (and if I did anything to make it work).
lsusb gives me:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 06cb:0ac3 Synaptics, ...
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How to disable on-screen keyboard in my touchscreen laptop?
I have a Laptop which supports touchscreen, and since I moved to Ubuntu, there is some on-screen keyboard popup which is very annoying. Every time I touch a text-filling form, the keyboard shows up. I ...
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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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View raw stylus input?
I have an HP Spectre x360 laptop with a touchscreen, that also has an HP stylus for input. Currently, the stylus isn't working, i.e. I touch it to the screen but it doesn't move the cursor, cause ...
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"Coordinate Transformation Matrix" and "libinput Calibration Matrix" - how are they related?
What's the exact format of "libinput Calibration Matrix" (i.e. what does each of its elements represent) and how is it related to "Coordinate Transformation Matrix"? If "...
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Mapping displays to a vm
I want to restrict a particular display on my host to only work with a specific vm, in this case an ubuntu-core-vm that's running as a kiosk to display some simply info on a touchscreen. This is set ...
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Configuring serial port touch screen in lubuntu 18.04
I've successfully installed lubuntu 18.04, recommended for my FOSS POS program to run in a Snack-Bar, in a pretty old, but 100% functional Sam4s machine (hardware description link) .
Everything works ...
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Touch screen is not responding well - DELL-Inspiron-5559 - Ubuntu - 20.04
Touchscreen is working properly in windows 10, but not in Ubuntu 20.04.(Dualboot)
G2Touch Multi-Touch by G2TSP id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
vijayreddy@v-Inspiron-5559:/$ xinput list-...
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Not Recognizing Touchscreen Double tap
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Touchscreen Display.
Installed the new Dell touchscreen display unit (Dell P2418HT), most all functions work, but I am unable to get the "Double-Tap" to open folders in the ...
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How to get the touchscreen on HP TouchSmart 520 PC to work with Ubuntu?
I've seen the question asked by David Swift on how to get the touchscreen working on the HP TouchSmart 520, but he never received an answer. I'm hoping that by re-asking, I can (hopefully) get an ...
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A way to restart ubuntu 20.04 touchscreen drivers?
For some reason ubuntu 20.04 touchscreen stops working after some time (Acer r7 371t). Google not much help, xinput enable/disable don't work, have to restart laptop for it to work again. I am not ...
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Onscreen keyboard keeps popping up - Ubunto 20.04
Since an update about 2/3 weeks ago, every time I touch the screen of my laptop the onboard keyboard annoyingly pops up. I was hoping this issue would get solved with new updates but since it is not ...
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How do you prevent the On-Screen Keyboard from showing up when selecting text fields in Ubuntu 20.04?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04. This is NOT the bug that causes the keyboard to pop up whenever the touchscreen is touched. Thank God I don't have that.
Whenever I touch a text field on the touchscreen, the ...
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Why can I launch a desktop shortcut with the mouse, but not my touchscreen?
I have made a .desktop file that works to launch a script I have written:
[Desktop Entry]
Version = 1.0
Exec=/home/me/myscript.sh
Name=My Script
Commment="Run my script"
Terminal=true
Type=...
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Disable touch screen Ubuntu 20.04 Huawei matebook pro
I'm trying to disable the touch screen on my huawei matebook x pro laptop, due to a crack in the screen corner.
This makes my cursor go crazy, with random mouse clicks where the crack is.
I've tried:
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Calibrating touch screen (multiple monitors)
I have a drawing tablet that works fine when I'm mirroring all my monitors. Once I stop mirroring, the stylus touch is off by a couple inches, making it impossible to draw.
with mirroring:
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Touchscreen kinda works and doesnt work
On my Laptop "HP Pavilion x360 14-cd0200ng" the touchscreen works at first. When im using Xournal++ at some moment its like im puting an invisible finger on the touchscreen, when trying to ...
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Unable to Calibrate touch screen properly
I picked up an old Touch Screen Jukebox running on Windows XP. The touch screen works fine on windows so I know its not the screen itself that is faulty. I have Installed xinput_calibrator and it ...
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How to get my Teclast X98 plus 2 built in touch screen working on Ubuntu 20.04
I have a teclast x98plus 2 on which I installed Ubuntu 20.04. Everything works except the built in touchscreen. I have looked at many fora but unable to find how I can fix this issue.
Touch is ...
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Surface pen keeps jumping to the same spot while drawing but not with a finger or the eraser end
I'm using a Surface 3 with a Surface pen (the newest one) to try and draw in Krita. The problem is it believes the pen keeps jumping to the top:
I suspected it was just a problem with the touchscreen,...
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Laptop Ubuntu 20.04: integrated keyboard does not function after closing the lid, touchscreen and mousepad works
Background
In earlier versions of Ubuntu, there were similar issues, as asked in question 1 and question 2.
Details of the situation
With suspend when lid closed setting as ON,
when the lid is ...
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Disable wonky touchscreen on HP Spectre x360
I have a Spectre with a touchscreen which inevitably registers phantom touches after running for a while. I've searched this forum and found several "Disable Touchscreen" entries, but none seem to ...
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LG touchscreen not getting any input events on Ubuntu 18.04
I have a LG LP156WF7 touchscreen (not a laptop) connected to a system running
Ubuntu 18.04 kernel 5.3.0-53-generic. But having problems with getting the touch working.
I can find the touch device ...
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What "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" must I use to get my touchscreen working correctly?
Can someone please assist me, I'm pulling my hair out here. I've been trying for days to figure this out.
Ubuntu 18.04.4
Display Set: Right
Touch Frame: IRTOUCH System
If i use the following command ...
