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touch(3)

TOUCHCAL(8)

NAME

touchcal − touch screen calibration

SYNOPSIS

touchcal

DESCRIPTION

Touchcal draws a cross-hair in each corner of the screen in turn (clockwise from the lower left hand corner), and waits each time for the user to touch the centre of the cross-hair with the stylus.  It then prompts with a final cross-hair in the centre of the screen, and waits once more for the user to touch its centre with the stylus.  The process is repeated until touchcal can calculate a transformation matrix that consistently maps the touch panel to screen coordinates.  It then writes corresponding calibration commands for touch(3) on its standard output, which can be saved in a file on the device, perhaps provided in NVRAM by tinyfs(3) or a file system in ftl(3).

Touchcal can be used both inside and outside the wm(1) environment, allowing calibration when the system is initialised, and whilst the window system is running.

FILES

/dev/touchctl
reset or read existing settings

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/touchcal.b

SEE ALSO

touch(3)

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