Touch Screen Issues

[Robbie Williamson]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/MultiTouchSupport :)

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 17:32 -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: 
> Hello all,
> 
> I want to inquire about the state of touchscreen development in Ubuntu. 
>   I recently built a touch-screen-only system running Karmic and I'm 
> generally happy with it (the OS is pretty heavy weight, lots of caching 
> to disk, etc, but that is the way of things in this Aero-Aqua-world) but 
> the touch screen support is lacking.  I'm using xorg-input-evtouch.
> 
> 1- No click and drag!! This is an absolute killer.  Many UI features 
> don't work at all without click and drag.  What's worse, I *know* the 
> capability is there because when I move a window using right-click-> 
> move, or resize using right-click->resize, click and drag works (albeit 
> awkwardly).
> 
> 2- I have to start Xorg twice in order for the touchscreen calibration 
> to load.  I don't know why this is, but I suspect that the config 
> settings (which are currently loaded in /etc/init.d) should be loaded 
> from somewhere within the Xsession (doesn't X handle the touchscreen?). 
>   This problem is very bad because, when the touch screen doesn't work 
> the first time, it is impossible to exit gnome.  I have to restart gdm 
> via ssh.  I have to do this every time the computer boots.  If I didn't 
> have sshd running, I would not be able to use the system at all without 
> a physical mouse.
> 
> 3- I'm using onboard for my onscreen keyboard.  It takes 5 seconds to 
> start.  Surely I could do with a bit more RAM in the machine (1GB not 
> enough?) but is there some way for me to force it to stay in memory?
> 
> 3a- it would be really nice, since it's so much trouble to move the 
> onboard window (no click and drag), if onboard would show the text 
> that's been typed so far in some kind of display space, since often 
> onboard itself appears in front of the cursor location.
> 
> 3b- onboard doesn't have a man page.
> 
> Mostly I'm sending this post as a trial to see if I should file bugs for 
> any of these.
> 
> Thanks for your input.  Thanks for making ubuntu.
> 
> -Brandon
> 


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