Kivy Touchscreen and ROS

[Matthew Aquilina]

I am attempting to use a touchscreen for Kivy with Ubuntu 16.04 (Python 2.7).  The application should send commands to another ROS application, acting as a ROS node itself.

However, whenever I turn on ROS i.e. rospy.init_node(' ') within the app run, the Kivy Hidinput driver fails to turn on and thus I cannot receive any touch input.

Does anyone know about this issue or how to solve it?

Thanks,

Matthew Aquilina