clefebvre
commented
4 years ago Wow... it's hard to tackle this because there are many different issues here... Let's leave the Firefox limitation aside, this is upstream from us.
- Regarding the onscreen keyboard, which one do you use? cinnamon or onboard? and which did you use in Ubuntu?
- Autorotation isn't working, this is disabled by default. Did you enable it?
- Rotating display doesn't rotate touch input... can you show a screenshot of your display settings and the output of
xinput.
PhilipYip1988
It is slightly better when it is set to top (default).
I installed Linux Mint 20, Ubuntu 20.04 and Fedora 32 on a Dell OptiPlex 7040 and Dell XPS 13 9365 (which I used for TouchScreen Input). For the three OS I got a successful install with a UEFI Boot and SecureBoot with a MOK.
In Linux Mint 20 I have 4 main issues: • Autorotation does not work. Screen can be manually rotated but touch input does not rotate with the screen. This worked OOBE on Ubuntu and Fedora. I guess they share the same driver base so it shouldn't be a driver issue. In any case I couldn't find any additional drivers for the model in driver manager. The screen can be manually rotated but the touch interface does not rotate with the screen. • When attached to a TB16 Dell Dock with an external monitor I can only mirror the displays. I can't extend them or set different resolutions on the laptop screen and the monitor screen (think I had this issue with Ubuntu also). • The OOBE experience with FireFox and touch input is terrible. Text is highlighted when touching opposed to scrolling. This issue is also prevalent on Ubuntu but not on Fedora. I tend to replace FireFox immediately with Chromium/Chrome because of this. • The Touchscreen Keyboard has many issues and is clearly inferior to the newer one in Ubuntu and Fedora. If the Touch Keyboard is set to the bottom and set to show the keyboard anytime something expects an input the Start Menu is unusable. If this setting is selected most applications act like the keyboard is on all the time e.g. in FireFox or Chrome (the 1/3 of screen space of the touchscreen keyboard is left blank) when clicked out of a search box but the window doesn't resize any larger (unless the setting for the Touchscreen Keyboard is changed to off). I recorded a video of the install but flag this issue in particular at 17:00.