How to disable touchscreen temporary/permanent?
30/03/2021
Linux
How to disable touchscreen temporarily?
- Determine touchscreen device ID using following command
xinput. It will give a list of all available input device.
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Logitech G304 id=17 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Touchscreen id=30 [slave pointer (2)] # <-------- remember the ID [30]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Truevision HD: HP Truevision id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP Wireless hotkeys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ HP WMI hotkeys id=13 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD System Control id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD Consumer Control id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ SINO WEALTH USB KEYBOARD id=16 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech G304 id=18 [slave keyboard (3)]
- Disable the input device using this command
xinput disable 30.30is the device ID.
How to disable touchscreen permanently?
- Go to the following file
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf - Find a config section contained
touchscreenconfig, for example:
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall" # <-------- Look at this Identifier
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "Ignore" "on" # <-------- Add this config to ignore the touchscreen input.
EndSection
- Add
Option "Ignore" "on"to ignore touchscreen input.