thinkpad-touch

enable/disable the touch screen

Author:Jim Turner <jturner314@gmail.com>
Manual section:1

Synopsis

thinkpad-touch [on|off]

Description

This program enables/disables the touch screen of the ThinkPad tablet. If no option is given, it toggles the touch screen on/off.

Options

on|off

If you want to enable the touch screen, use on. Otherwise use off.

If you omit this option, the script will toggle the touch screen on/off.

Exit Status

0
Everything okay.
1
Some error.

Config

In the configuration file, you can set the xinput name of the touch screen. The ThinkPad X220 Tablet has Wacom ISDv4 E6 Finger touch for instance:

[input]
touchscreen_device = Wacom ISDv4 E6 Finger touch

Examples

You can just call thinkpad-touch to toggle the touch screen; otherwise state on/off explicitly with thinkpad-touch on or thinkpad-touch off.

Epilogue

This file is part of thinkpad-scripts by Martin Ueding and Jim Turner.

We hope that this collection of scripts is useful to you. If you experience bugs, find the documentation lacking or have a new kind of hardware that we do not yet support, feel free to open an issue on GitHub or write an email to Martin Ueding.