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Ski-lleR

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Registered: 2019-12-31

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[Solved] Keeping touch screen mapping after reboot

Hi,

I recently bought a Asus Zenscreen MB16AMT to use for different purpose, completing a dual head setup.

I connected the screen, the pure multi head thing worked out of the box with xfce, no problem so far in settings everything with gui (just like with 2 screen, but with 3 ^^).

I'm not going to use the touch screen heavily, but i will use it sometime, so i expect it to work. Actually everything was somewhat broken, when i touch the screen it seem the surface of the 3 screen is taken in account for input.

After digging a bit, i found that i have to map input to screen, listed the input with xinput --list, so i endup with the command below :
# xinput --map-to-output "eGalax Inc. eGalaxTouch EXC3200-2505-09.00.00.00" HDMI-A-1

Well one command and everything is working, that's pretty cool ^^

My question is what's the best way to keep this after reboot ? Assuming my screen / graphics card / display+hmdi cable are not meant to change regulary, so the command will remain the same (speaking about the HDMI-A-1).

Thanks

Last edited by Ski-lleR (2020-07-05 11:53:17)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: [Solved] Keeping touch screen mapping after reboot

The easiest method would be to add it to your autostart applications. However, keep in mind that it might get overwritten during the startup, so you should add a delay of sorts. Something like:

bash -c 'xinput --map-to-output "eGalax Inc. eGalaxTouch EXC3200-2505-09.00.00.00" HDMI-A-1'

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Ski-lleR

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Re: [Solved] Keeping touch screen mapping after reboot

Hi ToZ,

Got it thank

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Keeping touch screen mapping after reboot

Sorry, I just realized I forgot to add the delay. Try this instead:

bash -c 'sleep 5 && xinput --map-to-output "eGalax Inc. eGalaxTouch EXC3200-2505-09.00.00.00" HDMI-A-1'

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Ski-lleR

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Re: [Solved] Keeping touch screen mapping after reboot

Don't worry i just understand  your response and set a delay
Thanks anyway