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[SOLVED] Any DE or distro without touch support?

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I have an old AIO PC and its touch panel is not working properly. Are there any DEs or distros that doesnt have touch support?

Edit: Thanks to everyone that replied and suggested solutions. For me this worked: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-blacklist-a-module-on-ubuntu-debian-linux

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Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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Can you just turn off or disconnect the touch screen?

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

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nyan@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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

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