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Linux turn off laptop touch screen

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JohnS

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=== simpler and more permenant way follows this way ….

Type in the terminal:

xinput list

and see what shows. Somewhere under “virtual core pointer” the name of your touchscreen device should appear (on my ASUS X202E it’s “Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer”)

Then type

xinput set-prop <device-name> "Device Enabled" 0

(So in my case it was

xinput set-prop "Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer" "Device Enabled" 0

)

And that’s it.

If you you want to enable it back type

xinput set-prop <device-name> "Device Enabled" 1
Add the command to your autostart list.

==== more permenant way ======

To turn off a linux laptop touch screen edit the following file:

/usr/share/x11/xorg.config.d/10-evdev.conf

The last section should like like this

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

Add the line “Option “Ignore” “on”  to the Section “InputClass” so it looks like this:

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

reboot