• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
    30·
    1 month ago

    Almost every distro can be operated with a mouse and keyboard. If you want to disable touch screen you have to look into that. Some articles might be there on arch wiki.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
    12·
    1 month ago

    Did you mean with touch support? They can all work without touch if you just don’t use it.

    Gnome works quite well with touch. I had to jump through some hoops to get KDE Plasma to work well enough on my Steam Deck. I have to use three different on screen keyboards (Maliit, Onboard and Steam’s) depending on what I’m doing.

    • tariusOP
      101·
      1 month ago

      No. The touch panel is making ghost inputs. So, I want to get a DE without touch support or need to figure out how I can disable touch input.

      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
        29·
        1 month ago

        Seems like what you want is to disable the touch screen rather than a DE that specifically doesn’t support it… Often times the touchscreen can be disabled in the BIOS/UEFI. But if that’s not the case see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/531919

        Another option would be to look into calibrating the touchscreen to stop the ghost inputs.

        • tariusOP
          1·
          1 month ago

          There is no option in BIOS to disable touch input.

          The stackexchange solution didnt work. When I tried to set it to unbind, Im getting permission denied even as root.

          Touchscreen is physically damaged.

      • KrapKake@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 month ago

        You may have to look into figuring out which driver Linux is using for your touchscreen then blacklist that module so that it doesn’t load anymore.

        • tariusOP
          11·
          1 month ago

          You won! Blacklisting the module worked!!

          Thank you!!!

      • verdigris
        13·
        1 month ago

        You can definitely disable the touch pad in any distro. Try the steps in the best answer here

    • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      1 month ago

      I usually don’t use it, but everytime I get a chance to use GNOME with a touch screen I’m always impressed at how well it works. The onscreen keyboard could use some work though.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        2·
        1 month ago

        When I had my Pinephone I was really tempted to use Gnome as my DE. There were just some really small annoyances and it would have been perfect. Made me wish that Purism had thrown their weight directly at Gnome instead of making Phosh.

        • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          1 month ago

          TBF I think that Phosh did a great job for small screens. I didn’t try GNOME on neither my PP nor Mobian OnePlus 6

  • nyan@sh.itjust.works
    10·
    1 month ago

    To echo others here, you really need to kill the driver. There are a couple of different kernel modules that might be involved, depending on exactly how your touch panel is connected to the rest of the system. Software that has no specific touch support will likely treat your renegade hardware as a mouse, rather than ignoring it.

    You may be able to unbind the driver from the device, see this discussion on stackexchange.

  • Efwis@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I don’t know about gnome, but on KDE you can disable touch support under settings>mouse & touchpad.

  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 month ago

    What kind of touch. Hard? Soft? Totally different distros. Swipe? Distro. Pinch? Distro. TAP! Believe it or not, distro.