Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix5.panix.com!qz!not-for-mail From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: point-of-sale touchscreen displays Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:31:33 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Some absurd concept Message-ID: Injection-Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:31:33 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix5.panix.com:166.84.1.5"; logging-data="15512"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: Vectrex rn 2.1 (beta) X-Liz: It's actually happened, the entire Internet is a massive game of Redcode X-Motto: "Erosion of rights never seems to reverse itself." -- kenny@panix X-US-Congress: Moronic Fucks. X-Attribution: EtB XFrom: is a real address Encrypted: double rot-13 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:79608 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 ------ having an always on touch screen makes screen cleaning touchy