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    From Eli the Bearded@*@eli.users.panix.com to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 01:31:33 2025
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    The panel mount screens marketed for point-of-sale use all seem to have
    have USB connections for the touch screen part. They are pretty slim
    with documentation, however.

    Example product:

    https://www.newegg.com/13-3-nexanic-gc1316-capacitive/p/2NY-0044-00019

    Do these just work "out of the box" with Linux, for some major distro
    like Debian or Slackware? I know other touch screens do work, like the
    one on my Thinkpad, where I find it useful about once in a blue moon.

    Context: I'm looking at panel mount monitors, for a custom mount, and
    the sizes I'm interested in overlap with the POS market. So if I were
    getting one, maybe I'd want to use the full features it comes with. (And
    USB attached means I could easily only activate it when useful.)

    Elijah
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  • From Richard Kettlewell@invalid@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Dec 21 09:17:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
    The panel mount screens marketed for point-of-sale use all seem to have
    have USB connections for the touch screen part. They are pretty slim
    with documentation, however.

    Example product:

    https://www.newegg.com/13-3-nexanic-gc1316-capacitive/p/2NY-0044-00019

    Do these just work "out of the box" with Linux, for some major distro
    like Debian or Slackware? I know other touch screens do work, like the
    one on my Thinkpad, where I find it useful about once in a blue moon.

    Pass, but https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Touchscreen suggests some
    just work while others are ‘very tedious’. Where you can find a list of what is supported and what is not I do not know...
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