Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreens under linux

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 22:29 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote:

>  If I understand correctly, the touchscreen is (if used correctly) just
>  another way to control the mouse pointer. Is that right?

yes.  when you touch, the mouse moves to, and clicks at that location.
You usually have an option to use right clicks.  Depending on the
driver, dragging and other more complicated mouse features may be a bit
more tricky.  Similar to using a touchpad.

Some newer tablet PC's (ie. Toshiba, not sure about others) actually
have a special pen which moves the mouse without touching the screen -
you just hover over the screen and the mouse moves, then touch to get a
click.

>  Do I have to use X to use the touchscreen, or can I use it with gpm or
>  SDL?

nope, AFAIR it will work like any mouse.  There's not much you can do
without X though is there?  Unless you have a keyboard, and then why not
have a mouse as well?

HTH,
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