| xubuntu30w | O hai, could anyone help with an Xubuntu 18.04.3 issue with touchscreen being identified wrong by xinput? It should be an easy fix I hope | 05:21 |
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| well_laid_lawn | xubuntu30w: do you know the hardware inviolved ? | 05:22 |
| xubuntu30w | @well_laid_lawn it's the touchscreen on an HP RP7800 POS terminal, yes | 05:25 |
| xubuntu30w | what I can tell you is that it seems to identify itself as two devices, both show up in evtest(1) | 05:25 |
| xubuntu30w | "HID TOUCH HID Touch Panel Touchscreen" (/dev/input/event4) and "HID TOUCH HID Touch Panel Mouse" (/dev/input/event5) | 05:26 |
| xubuntu30w | event4 does nothing. event5 generates events exactly like you'd expect when the screen is touched | 05:26 |
| xubuntu30w | Oops sorry, it's event4 that works and event5 that doesn't | 05:27 |
| xubuntu30w | However, the only one that shows up in "xinput list" is "HID TOUCH HID Touch Panel Mouse" (the dead one) | 05:28 |
| xubuntu30w | That's also the only one that shows up in Settings -> Mouse and Touchpad | 05:29 |
| well_laid_lawn | so you touch the screen to click on something and nothing happens ? | 05:30 |
| xubuntu30w | Exactly, nothing happens. | 05:30 |
| well_laid_lawn | I don't use touch screens but we'll see what the interwebs says about it | 05:31 |
| xubuntu30w | I've been trying to google up what to do for like 2 days, but all the hits I get are like "put ~~~ in Xorg.conf", yet this version of Xubuntu doesn't seem to *have* Xorg.conf :/ | 05:32 |
| well_laid_lawn | it's in ~/.local/share nowadays | 05:34 |
| well_laid_lawn | I had no luck with a web search 'cept hp.com stuff | 05:34 |
| xubuntu30w | the thing is that since it'll talk to evtest(1), it's just a case of getting Xinput to accept input from it | 05:35 |
| xubuntu30w | then I'm sure it'll work | 05:35 |
| well_laid_lawn | Xorg has to load the right module for it | 05:36 |
| xubuntu30w | OK, I see | 05:36 |
| well_laid_lawn | which is probably what you found about editing xorg.conf | 05:36 |
| xubuntu30w | I didn't find anything specific to this one very touchscreen, what I was looking at was more generic | 05:37 |
| well_laid_lawn | no harm in trying | 05:38 |
| well_laid_lawn | can always unedit a file | 05:38 |
| xubuntu30w | I mean, I didn't even get as far as finding anything that I could paste into an xorg.conf :/ | 05:50 |
| xubuntu30w | like "generic touchscreen" kind of example | 05:50 |
| well_laid_lawn | xubuntu30w: it might pay to check dmesg and see what it says about the hardware | 05:51 |
| xubuntu30w | well_laid_lawn let's have a look | 05:55 |
| xubuntu30w | hang on | 05:55 |
| well_laid_lawn | https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchscreen might help | 05:56 |
| bodiccea | Do you use "radiotray" ? It used to work, but recently, it fails when system locks. Impossible to relaunch it too... | 08:32 |
| hans_ | i've seen it TWICE now, i'm pretty sure that: if you install xubuntu through "xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso" then you will get a functional apt-get package tab-autocomplete, but if you install it through "xubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso" it will be broken o.0 | 09:05 |
| hans_ | anyhow, the last 2 installs i did via xubuntu-18.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso had broken apt-get autocomplete | 09:06 |
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| hans_ | how do i add custom programs/launchers to the start menu? put my .desktop file in /usr/share/applications ? is that the correct way to do it? | 11:44 |
| hans_ | idk if it's the correct way to do it, but it worked at least ^^ | 11:45 |
| lighterowl | /usr/share/applications is for system-wide menus, while user ones should go to ~/.local/share/applications. | 11:45 |
| hans_ | thanks | 11:46 |
| Ural | People, maybe we help me? Please.. I press left mouse key, for set desktop background - but not see background pictures (wallpapers) in folder for it. This wallpapers exist in folder, but i not see its in desktop-settings manager. | 16:43 |
| lighterowl | you mean the right mouse key :) | 16:48 |
| lighterowl | Ural: are you sure you've got the right "Folder:" selected under the available thumbnails? I fall for this from time to time. | 16:49 |
| Ural | In this folder exist wallpapers in jpg | 16:58 |
| lighterowl | Ural: the only thing that comes to mind is running "xfdesktop-settings -e" from the console and searching the debug log for the name of the file. perhaps there's something blocking the application from reading it. | 17:01 |
| Ural | Thanks! I do it and see wallpapers | 17:07 |
| lighterowl | oh | 17:07 |
| lighterowl | that's surprising. : | 17:07 |
| lighterowl | :) | 17:07 |
| Ural | But if i try to change it, it write | 17:07 |
| Ural | backdrop screen0 monitor0 workspace0 last-image DBG[main.c:1141] cb_folder_selection_changed(): folder didn't change | 17:09 |
| lighterowl | if you search the log for the name of the file you want to use, does it find anything? | 17:15 |
| Ural | and (xfdesktop-settings:5689): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 22:14:50.405: g_dbus_proxy_new: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed | 17:15 |
| lighterowl | wow, it's really late over there. | 17:16 |
| lighterowl | Ural: that sounds like the thumbnailer wasn't running and the desktop settings application cannot connect to it ... which is weird. | 17:17 |
| Ural | Hmmm | 17:18 |
| lighterowl | Ural: if you run "pgrep tumblerd" in the console, is there any output? | 17:18 |
| Ural | 5698 | 17:19 |
| lighterowl | huh. | 17:20 |
| lighterowl | Ural: the only thing that comes to mind is forcing a refresh of the thumbnails by creating a new thumbnail cache. if that won't work, then I have no idea what might be wrong. | 17:24 |
| Ural | And how i can to do it? | 17:25 |
| Ural | Creating new thrumbnal cache? | 17:25 |
| lighterowl | mv ~/.cache/thumbnails ~/.cache/thumbnails.backup | 17:25 |
| lighterowl | this will move the current thumbnail cache directory to a backup one, so if you run xfdesktop-settings again, the cache should be recreated. | 17:25 |
| Ural | Thanks a lot!!! All work!! Work again. Super!! | 17:27 |
| lighterowl | не за что, спокойной ночи :) | 17:28 |
| Ural | Спасибо!!! | 17:33 |
| xubuntu52w | I attempted to a distribution upgrade from 18.04 to 19.10, but it got stuck at the installation stage. It unpacked some libc packages, but then got stuck at "De-configuring libc6:i386 (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...". It has been there for over a day. After killing the upgrade, how do I make sure I don't end up with a broken system? I want to avoid doing a | 20:26 |
| xubuntu52w | reinstall. | 20:26 |
| gnrp | xubuntu52w: Try on the console a `dpkg --configure -a` | 20:28 |
| emant999x | hello | 21:46 |
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