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Long story short, I dropped my surface and the screen cracked. This is causing it to have false touches pretty frequently. I managed to disable it on my windows partition where I'm typing this from. But of the two suggested methods I've found:

  1. Either disabling it from xinput

  2. Add Option "Ignore" "on" to 10-envdev.conf to the end of the section that said touchscreen

have not been successful. 2 being so not successful that it completely broke my ubuntu distribution

Addition bits of info: The computer in question is a Surface Pro 3 It was running ubuntu 15.10

Your help would be very much appreciated.

Nalis
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Was in the same boat.

  1. Run xinput to list out the input devices. Your touchscreen should show as one of the "pointers".

  2. xinput disable "NTRG0001:01 1B96:1B05" (your device ID may differ than mine)

  3. Add this to your ~/.bashrc or such to do automatically upon login

UPDATE: If you are able to attach an external monitor, using arandr to deactivate the tablet's monitor will also disable the pointer device.

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