I recently installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a Winbook Tw100 (bay trail) windows 8 tablet. I was going to install 15.04, but it was not able to install (it could only run in LiveCD mode). Surprisingly enough, some things that worked in 15.04 don’t work in 14.10. Things that don’t work in 14.10, but that did … Read more
I am looking to configure Ubuntu(Any version, new installation) for presentation in which I would like to do the following things : Automatic guest-login at startup. Completely disable keyboard,mouse, USB ports, there is a touch-screen available which the user can use. Disable TTY access i.e ctrl+alt+F2,F3, and so on. No access to file-system via nautilus. … Read more
I have a DGM L-1935WD touch screen monitor I purchased second hand to use, but when I touch the monitor it comes up as if I am touching somewhere else. If I click the Windows button on my monitor I shows as if I am clicking the top right hand corner, or if I click … Read more
Is there any way to use an old tablet screen as a touch screen monitor for pc? I know it’s possible to use it as a normal monitor with a controller board but I have no clue on how to do use the touch screen. Convert it to usb like normal touch screen monitors out … Read more
I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my HP Envy and can’t get the touchscreen working. No response when I touch the screen, even after reboot. I’ve seen a couple of other topics on this but none that solved my issue so I apologize if a solution is already out there somewhere. Output of lsusb: Bus … Read more
I disabled the Touchscreen of my Lenovo X220 (core i7) tablet due to over-sensitivity (it registers some non-existing ‘touches’ itself) in the Device Manager according to this previous post: How do I disable the touch screen on Windows 8.1 for a Lenovo X220? It works right after I have disabled it. However, as soon as … Read more
I would like to treat my windows laptop as an external monitor for my windows desktop. There are applications like Spacedesk that allow you to use the laptop/android/ios device as an external monitor but the laptop’s input is non functional. I would like to the be able to use the touch screen on my desktop. … Read more
When running apps made for Windows 8/RT on Windows 10 they include support for the App Command UI triggered by a touch gesture; which seems to be no longer a thing in windows 10. So there are parts of the app that are hidden unless you use the gesture to open them, but since Windows … Read more
I have a touch screen monitor with Windows 7 machine. A weird thing is if I swipe fast left to right or vice versa it rotates the screen by 90 degrees (change screen orientation from landscape to portrait mode). First, it’s odd enough that just a gesture does that but how can I disable that? … Read more
So I cracked the digitizer on my HP envy 13.3″ and it no longer responds to touch… traumatic but windows 10 is still just as usable/unusable without touch for me (the touch functionality is not worth the cost being asked for the replacement digitizer to me) so now I’m left with the dead weight of … Read more
