No know workaround other than using another desktop environment that doesn't use mutter (such as KDE plasma).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mutter in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2063005 Title: Some shell elements don't respond to touchscreen in Xorg sessions Status in Mutter: New Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Starting in GNOME 46 touchscreen input on the X11 session has become unusable the touchscreen is responsive on the desktop itself (moving the cursor) but does not interact with most things on GNOME 46 on the current version of Ubuntu Noble, touch input does NOT work with: - On screen keyboard (touch is registered but no keystrokes get input) - clicking options in gnome appindicators (indicators can be opened but clicking any option does nothing) - interacting with application overview (cannot press left and right buttons or search bar) - selecting textboxs - any of the touch gestures (eg: swipe up from bottom to bringup keyboard) All of the above worked just fine on GNOME 45 on Ubuntu Mantic (and Ubuntu Noble from March and earlier before it was "upgraded" to GNOME 46). Tested on a fresh image as well as an old image from February running GNOME 45 upgraded to the latest packages with GNOME 46 --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: ubuntu DisplayManager: sddm DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-06-21 (1035 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210209.1) Package: xorg-server PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.8.0-28.28-generic 6.8.1 RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks. RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 46.0-1ubuntu7 Tags: noble Uname: Linux 6.8.0-28-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-04-21 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev render sambashare sudo _MarkForUpload: True --- ProblemType: Bug ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: arm64 CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME DisplayManager: gdm3 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04 Package: xorg-server PackageArchitecture: arm64 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=(custom, no user) SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=xterm-256color XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 46.0-1ubuntu7 Tags: noble third-party-packages Uname: Linux 4.9.140-l4t aarch64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm audio cdrom dip gdm lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo users video weston-launch _MarkForUpload: True To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mutter/+bug/2063005/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp