Touches should never be reaching the external monitor regardless of whether the internal screen is on or off. So we're tracking that as bug 1821933 now.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #766762 https://gitlab.gnome.org/766762 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1723039 Title: with 2 monitors, touchscreen is not disabled when the internal display is disabled Status in Mutter: Unknown Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in mutter source package in Disco: Fix Released Bug description: With an external monitor attached and the internal display being a touch screen, set the output to the external display only. The internal display is disabled (it is turned off) but the touch screen is still active. The actions are visible on the external display (eg selection, osk) but it not useful (for example the osk is displayed but cannot be used) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-15.16-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-15-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Oct 12 10:47:04 2017 DisplayManager: gdm3 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.shell' b'had-bluetooth-devices-setup' b'true' b'org.gnome.shell' b'app-picker-view' b'uint32 1' b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'firefox.desktop', 'google-chrome-beta.desktop', 'streamtuner2.desktop']" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (1176 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-06-13 (120 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mutter/+bug/1723039/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

