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Prevent X windows taking the Touchscreen input

Richard Goodwin edited this page Jan 4, 2017 · 10 revisions

When developing Europi, I like to do so within the X graphical environment.

One of the problems is that once I have installed the touchscreen drivers, and am using rapi2fb to mirror /dev/fb0 to /dev/fb and touch input also gets sucked in and interpreted by X windows.

To prevent this, edit the following file:

/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf

Find the section ontaining the identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall" and add the following (including quotes) at the bottom of that section:

Option "Ignore" "on"