On 05/09/13 14:57, Mark Rogers wrote:
They want to do away with keyboard and mouse so that means a touch screen. Any experience/suggestions/recommendations?
Most of the interface is click only (a few elements are hover but they're not critical). There is the need to login so that'll need a pop-up keyboard of some kind, although we'd also like to look at barcode scanning support (all staff have a swipe card with barcode on it and that could bypass the keyboard-based login).
If you need an On Screen Keyboard then perhaps the Yocto project is a good start. I think they have a very customisable pop up keyboard.
*Most* touchscreen hardware is just a USB HID profile device and should more or less just work. Some hardware I have seen does long press to right click (not that it sounds like you need right click), if not I think that is achievable in software.
[*] How do I check via SSH what desktop manager was installed?
'whereis gdm' and if it exists do 'cat /etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings' and see what the default DM is set to perhaps. If GDM doesn't exist follow the same process for KDM or check the package manager.