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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