[Xquartz-dev] Inkscape & Gimp working & tablets working in 2.3.2_rc2

[Jeremy Huddleston]

My guess is that you haven't installed the wacom drivers for OSX.  We  
rely on receiving tablet events from OSX, but it looks like we're not  
getting any.


On Dec 6, 2008, at 08:51, Gene Selkov wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Mark Buckingham
> <markbuckingham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just thought you would like to know...
>>
>> Tablet support for Inkscape & Gimp seems to be working well in  
>> 2.3.2_rc2.
>> In 2.3.1, my wacom tablet was visible to the gimp, but would not do
>> anything but move the pointer and occasionally freeze the gimp  
>> entirely.
>> Now, it's able to draw well with pressure support.
>
> I wish I could confirm this. There must be something that depends on
> luck. I have Wacom Bamboo; xinput lists the following devices when it
> is plugged in (and even after it is unplugged):
>
> "Virtual core keyboard" id=0    [XKeyboard]
> "Virtual core pointer"  id=1    [XPointer]
>        Num_buttons is 32
>        Num_axes is 2
> "keyboard"      id=2    [XExtensionKeyboard]
> "pointer"       id=3    [XExtensionPointer]
>        Num_buttons is 7
>        Num_axes is 2
> "pen"   id=4    [XExtensionPointer]
>        Num_buttons is 3
>        Num_axes is 5
> "cursor"        id=5    [XExtensionPointer]
>        Num_buttons is 3
>        Num_axes is 5
> "eraser"        id=6    [XExtensionPointer]
>        Num_buttons is 3
>        Num_axes is 5
>
> xinput sees the following:
>
> 1: "unable to find device 1"
>
> 2: works as expected
>
> 3: recieves motion and button events *both* from the Apple touchpad
> and from the tablet. On the tablet, it sees only tap events as Button
> 1, and pen buttons as Button 2 and Button 3. Pressure and tilt are not
> registered.
>
> 4, 5, 6: no events
>
> This is in 2.3.2_rc2 I installed yesterday as a package. Could it be a
> compile-time option that's missing in the binary package? What can I
> do to help figure it out?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Gene
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