Toggle microphone mute on a Windows tablet with a single touch

I have recently began playing online tabletop games with friends on my Surface Pro 7 with the keyboard detached. While communicating via voice (usually Discord), I’d like to toggle the mute state of my microphone (or alternatively push-to-talk) as conveniently as possible, since I’m doing that quite often. Doing this using a keyboard is easy, … Read more

How can I simulate touch gestures/events on a non-touchscreen monitor?

I have a Unity-designed game which works with Windows 10 native touch gestures on some menus. I really want to test out this game program on different aspects but doesn’t have a touchscreen to test with. Hence, I kindly ask here if there are any best methods to test the game’s touch events in my … Read more

Why does Chromium handle touch differently than Firefox in my CentOS 8 system?

I have a CentOS 8 system and I’ve installed both Chromium and Firefox. The computer is a Cybermed NB22 and the touch screen identifies itself as ‘eTurboTouch Technology Inc. Cybernet 215 SP14014 Touch Panel’. When I use Firefox (and everything else I’ve played with), pressing on the touch screen acts exactly like pressing the left … Read more

Disable swipe from right screen edge on Windows 10 with touch screens

Windows 10 has built-in touch gestures, so when swiping from the edges on touchscreens it will open various things. I want to disable this, so by using Local Group Policy Editor, I have edited following: Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Edge UI And here I selected Addow edge swipe and set it to Disabled. While Windows now … Read more

How to enable multi-touch on touchscreen laptop?

I have Windows 11 running on Asus Vivobook. I downloaded Bluestacks Emulator to play PUB-G but while playing my device is not receiving multiple touches like running and shooting simultaneously. How to enable multi-touch on touchscreen laptop? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch Click here to check out my laptop screen image. You can clearly see that it supports multi-touch … Read more

Disable randomly-activated touch-sensitive buttons on BenQ monitor

I greatly enjoy using my BenQ monitor, being certified as truly flicker-free. But unfortunately the touch-sensitive buttons on the front-face bottom-right of bezel stopped working properly (right after warranty expired of course). All the touch buttons light up and then randomly activate. This tends to happen in late afternoon. This makes me suspect it is … Read more

multiple touch screens permanent configuration

I am trying to configure multiple touch screens in Windows 10, and it is working as long as I don’t shutdown the screens. If I shutdown the screens, at power up the touch inputs are either not working or working on just one screen (mostly the wrong screen). To recover I need to unplug and … Read more

Erratic Pointer Please Advise on Overcoming This

Regarding my Acer E1-572P Touchscreen. Windows 10. The screen pointer is overactive and behaves erratically on 2 websites, telescope.org and CoCalc. This is the problem. I haven’t found any other web sites which cause this behaviour. So all other websites that I use work fine. However I use these two web sites almost daily. When … Read more