Official Display • 'Tap to wake' Touch Display is risky

I have been tinkering with kiosk mode on the Touch Display 2, and I wanted to set up my Pi to blank the screen after a period of inactivity. I have that working using the built-in Screen Blanking functionality, and I can control the timeout by editing the file at
However, after doing some testing with my Home Assistant dashboard, I noticed that it's not a 'tap to wake', like I'm used to on tablets and other touch displays like thermostat controllers... instead, the tap is registered as a normal click.

This can be dangerous (in my case more like annoying...), if I have a UI displaying (like Home Assistant) that has active buttons I could accidentally press when the display is black, when I'm just trying to wake the Pi.

Is there any way I can have the display blanked out, and then the first tap when it's blanked is not registered as a normal click, but instead just wakes the screen? It doesn't seem that way, but I'm open to creative solutions. See https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-kiosk/issues/2

Statistics: Posted by geerlingguy — Thu Nov 07, 2024 4:04 pm

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