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    Exclamation Disabling touch screen in Kali Linux

    The situation is I have an Asus Vivobook with a broken touch screen.
    I'm using the latest ISO installation of Kali on a USB drive and am very new to Kali and relatively new to Linux in general.
    Because Kali recognizes the touch screen it continues to act as if someone is pressing on the corner of the screen making the mouse unusable.
    I've searched high and low for a way to disable this. The option to disable touch screens doesn't show up anywhere that I can find. So I likely need to use the terminal window to disable it, or have to uninstall a driver somewhere.

    Any thoughts?

    The only thing I've found was xinput for Ubuntu to list and then disable devices by ID. However I can't find an easy equivalent to it.
    I've even tried uninstalling any driver I can that references multi-touch.

    Thanks for your help!

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    Code:
    root@kali:~# apt-get install xinput
    Code:
    root@kali:~# xinput
    ⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
    ⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
    ⎜   ↳ Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer          	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
    ⎜   ↳ ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad                	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
    ⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
        ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Video Bus                               	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Power Button                            	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ Asus WMI hotkeys                        	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=12	[slave  keyboard (3)]
        ↳ USB2.0 UVC HD Webcam                    	id=9	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    Code:
    root@kali:~# xinput disable 10     ---- This is my touchscreen, work for me, try to find yours....
    Last edited by JohnathanMoura; 2016-01-15 at 02:48.

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