On 6 September 2013 07:53, Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk wrote:
*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.
I've been doing some research into this, without the luxury of having a touch screen to play with. There seem to be lots of people having issues (pick a touch screen model, google for it +linux, find people having issues on Ubuntu Forums etc with varying degrees of success compiling drivers etc).
I need to quote a customer to add a touch screen to an existing Ubuntu 11.04 system (upgrading the OS version isn't necessarily a problem but just increases the work needed - especially given that 11.04/11.10 are no longer supported). So it would really help to have some clues as to which manufacturer's screens will give me the least grief - any suggestions?
(Aside: I expect that upgrading to 12.04 via 11.10 and then keeping it on a supported LTS version will be happening at some point.)