Possible To Disable NetBook's Touch Screen?

[JeZ-l-Lee]

Thank you for the detailed instructions...
Unfortunately it did not survive a reboot...
Apparently xinput devices don't have the same ID each boot...
so when I rebooted my trackpad did not work and the touch screen did...
I GIVE UP!, but thank anyway.

Jesse

[vinnywright]

Thank you for the detailed instructions...
Unfortunately it did not survive a reboot...
Apparently xinput devices don't have the same ID each boot...
so when I rebooted my trackpad did not work and the touch screen did...
I GIVE UP!, but thank anyway.

Jesse

? strange ,,they stay the same hear , even on different installs?

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Nothing wrong with your instructions, VINNY! I suspect that there is something different, missing or misconfigured about his installation that he doesn't know about or realize, and thus hasn't informed us.

[JeZ-l-Lee]

try the same thing ,but in "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf" from the file ,,,,,,,

Section "InputClass"
      Identifier "libinput touchscreen catchall"
      MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
      MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
      Driver "libinput"
EndSection

turn "on" to "off"

and see if it works .

VINNY

Hi,

Finally got the netbook's touch screen disabled.
Adding:
Option "Ignore" "on"
to the bottom of the touchscreen section did the trick!

Thanks!

Jesse

[MoonRise]

OK then open rite click a blank space in dolphin and create new>textfile name it disabletouchscreen.sh (or whatever you like with the .sh) and put in it .

#!/bin/bash
xinput disable 11

just like that , save and close kate.
rite click the file in dolphin then click property's and the permissions tab and tick the "execute"button.

now go to system settings>startup and shutdown>auto start and click the "add script" button a window will popup asking for the path to the script click the "open file dialog" button to the rite of the text input field and navigate to your script click it and ok now click "apply , done

when you restart it should be disabled .

you can test the script rite after you make it just by double clicking it in dolphin and "execute" in the window that pops up .

I just tested this with a disable the touchpad xinput line "xinput disable 14" @hear

VINNY

Yes, the ID can be different each time that I learned as well. To survive that use the below. Pay attention to the part I've bolded and underlined. If you don't know what that is, post the output of what you get for xinput.

EDIT: Also, the portion "cut -c60-61" could be different as well. My string was fairly long so that pushed it out some for what I was looking at capturing.

#!/bin/bash

myID=($(xinput | grep "[U][I][B]Enter part of String that ID's your Touch Screen[/B][/I][/U]" | cut -d "+" -f2 | cut -c60-61 | tr -d " "))

xinput disable $myID