Bug 1392665 - Map touchscreens to the correct display
Summary: Map touchscreens to the correct display
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 6.8
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Rui Matos
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks: 1112384 1116920 1216221 1370321
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Reported: 2016-11-08 02:05 UTC by Peter Hutterer
Modified: 2017-12-06 11:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-12-06 11:22:51 UTC
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Description Peter Hutterer 2016-11-08 02:05:42 UTC
Description of problem:
Touchscreens in RHEL6 are mapped to the whole screen area (the xserver default). This becomes an issue when an external display is plugged in or when the touch display is an external display (like a touch-capable wacom tablet).

The work around is to run
   xinput map-to-output "touch device name" "output name"=
where the respective names can be obtained from "xinput list" and "xrandr". But it'd be nice to have this work out of the box.

Note: this partially works for some wacom touchscreens if they are recognised by libwacom but that looks more like a side-effect.

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 11:22:51 UTC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

The official life cycle policy can be reviewed here:

http://redhat.com/rhel/lifecycle

This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL:

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