HOW TO Set Up the Bamboo Pen & Touch in Lucid

[robert shearer]

Haven't found anything yet though I am holding off installing K3b (and kde packages).
I have it already on another problematic wacom install so will try removing everything KDE from that one first.

On the speed front I amended the "touch' section of your sample script and have achieved an acceptable movement rate without losing any functions.

## touch = ID 11 = "Wacom BambooFun 2FG 6x8 Finger"
xsetwacom set 11 Touch "on"
xsetwacom set 11 Gesture "on"
xsetwacom set 11 Mode "Relative"
xsetwacom set 11 Suppress "3"

[Favux]

Thanks for sharing. And that's the idea of the scripts. Fine tune them and let the thread know what works for you.

[Aquatic Fist]

Thank you so much for this!

Now my Bamboo Pen CTL-460 works again!

[Tictoon]

Hey Favux

Great tutorial! Aside from this tablet and my webcam I am windows-free but your tut helped me get the stylus and buttons working perfectly. However, I am having the same problem as Robert, where my touch is not working as well as in windows setting the Suppress to 1 sorta met me halfway, its still laggy, but not too bad and usable. But I would really like to get touch working as best as possible. I also dont have gestures working. Clicking works though.

Also, I want to set Button 4 to Windows-E but it tells me theres no key named Super, win, super, Super_R etc.

[Favux]

Hi Tictoon,

Glad you got it working. I don't know what to tell you about touch, because I was only briefly able to duplicate the symptoms. So I couldn't figure out what was wrong. The fact that Suppress is working indicates the wacom drivers have the tablet. Gestures should be working. My only suggestion is to reinstall xf86-input-wacom.

Currently supported special keys, from the code are:

		{"ctrl", "Control_L"},
		{"ctl", "Control_L"},
		{"control", "Control_L"},
		{"lctrl", "Control_L"},
		{"rctrl", "Control_R"},

		{"meta", "Meta_L"},
		{"lmeta", "Meta_L"},
		{"rmeta", "Meta_R"},

		{"alt", "Alt_L"},
		{"lalt", "Alt_L"},
		{"ralt", "Alt_R"},

		{"shift", "Shift_L"},
		{"lshift", "Shift_L"},
		{"rshift", "Shift_R"},

		{"f1", "F1"}, {"f2", "F2"}, {"f3", "F3"},
		{"f4", "F4"}, {"f5", "F5"}, {"f6", "F6"},
		{"f7", "F7"}, {"f8", "F8"}, {"f9", "F9"},
		{"f10", "F10"}, {"f11", "F11"}, {"f12", "F12"},
		{"f13", "F13"}, {"f14", "F14"}, {"f15", "F15"},
		{"f16", "F16"}, {"f17", "F17"}, {"f18", "F18"},
		{"f19", "F19"}, {"f20", "F20"}, {"f21", "F21"},
		{"f22", "F22"}, {"f23", "F23"}, {"f24", "F24"},
		{"f25", "F25"}, {"f26", "F26"}, {"f27", "F27"},
		{"f28", "F28"}, {"f29", "F29"}, {"f30", "F30"},
		{"f31", "F31"}, {"f32", "F32"}, {"f33", "F33"},
		{"f34", "F34"}, {"f35", "F35"},

		{"esc", "Escape"}, {"Esc", "Escape"},

		{"up", "Up"}, {"down", "Down"},
		{"left", "Left"}, {"right", "Right"},

		{"backspace", "BackSpace"}, {"Backspace", "BackSpace"},

		{ NULL, NULL }

What does Windows-E do? I assume Windows is the Windows start key. It's possible we can add that into the code.

[robert shearer]

@Tictoon I guess what is meant is Win+E (windows key and E for explorer) ?
The Meta key is the Win key so that is do-able .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_key

but why/what do you hope to achieve by using the keys for Windows explorer in Ubuntu ?

Don't you just want to use touch to navigate to the main menu and 'explore' from there ?


@Favux, more on the touch front. I have booted up without the Wacom connected and found my (usb) mouse buttons scrambled.
Left click is ok, middle is right and right is middle.

This seemed like my personalised setting for the Wacom pad buttons so from

xinput --list

I found that the mouse had claimed a couple of the Wacom places.

Then hot-plugged the Wacom and found that new places were added and now these do not match the xsetwacom script.

The Wacom works but at the default settings and default button assignments and slooow touch.

so it seems the usb mouse is conflicting/capturing ahead of the Wacom and hotplugging is being subverted.

??????
Cheers, bob.

next time I boot I will sub a ps2 mouse and remove the usb and see what happens.

[Favux]

I'm curious too.

I think xev is calling the Windows key Super_L. It may be meta too. So you'd probably want to add to xsetwacom.c in xf86-input-wacom/tools/ before compiling:

		{"left", "Left"}, {"right", "Right"},

		{"backspace", "BackSpace"}, {"Backspace", "BackSpace"},

		{"super", "Super_L"}, {"Super", "Super_L"},

		{ NULL, NULL }

I'd have to check it out more, but most likely this will work.


Interesting. So maybe it's something from the usb mouse .conf or udev rules. Hadn't thought of that. Hmmm.

[Tictoon]

Sorry for not clarifying, Win-E is what I use to get my screen into expo mode and change between virtual desktops

I am going to try and reinstall the drivers... but I'm not exactly sure how to uninstall them, should I just install over the current one?

[Favux]

Yes just install over them. Can't really uninstall them anymore.

[robert shearer]

OK, booted with just a ps2 mouse and it claimed id 8 & 9 that belong to the wacom tablet in the xsetwacom script.
Hotplugged the tablet and it claimed two of it's own but two others not associated with the script.

Interesting. So maybe it's something from the usb mouse .conf or udev rules. Hadn't thought of that. Hmmm.

So that eliminates the usb mouse.conf ??

Presumably a mouse claims ids at boot before the script runs so how is hotplugging meant to work ? and curious.