Hi there.
as the title suggests, I would like to use a small touchscreen lcd monitor as a dumb terminal. several of them, as a matter of fact.

The model I am currently looking at has an analogue vga d-sub connector, and a usb connector for the control, but there are a few different options, all with slightly different connectivity.

The distro im planning to use is slackwre, unless there is a good reason not to,

I would like to know if it is even possible to set up a montior and input device as a dumb terminal, and if so how to do it.

All the resources I have found thus far are actually talking about thin clients, which is not what i am looking for, and a solution i would very much like to avoid.

Many thanks,

James

I'm not at all sure what your question means. An LCD touchscreen is basically just a combo monitor and mouse. A dumb terminal typically communicates with a host computer over a serial line. Even the dumbest terminal is smarter than a display monitor.

Do you just want to run multiple touchscreen displays from the same linux PC? All connected via VGA and USB cables? I've seen such things advertised, e.g.

http://karlovo.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/...ti-user-HOWTO/

but have no personal experience.

I was under the impression the original dumb terminals were basicaly just a display and keyboard, but i have no personal experiance with this sort of thing (before my time )
however the link you suggested sounds like a really good way of doing the same thing and seems to support independant sound output too, which was the next checkbox on my list

thanks a lot