Touchscreen auto-configuration for multi-display systems

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 09:25:17AM -0400, Taylor Braun-Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently setup a touchscreen display on a dual-head system where the
> touchscreen display was on the left. Of course this doesn't work out of the
> box. I had to spend time learning about `xinput --map-to-output`. I ended
> up putting together the following script to automate manual process that is
> currently required:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/nocnokneo/3722097d2fc29b0d676a
> 
> Does the xorg have similar plans to make this configuration work
> automatically out of the box? Would a script like this be a viable
> solution? There is of course the issue of maintaining a touchscreen
> database to map displayID => touchscreenDevice, but worthwhile, I think, to
> get a solution that Just Works (at least more often than the way things are
> now)

no, this won't be handled in the server. this is stuff that the desktop
environment should handle.

Cheers,
   Peter