[Xquartz-dev] wacom tablet question / help

[Jonathan Chetwynd]

Jeremy,

still following the list, so may be able to help at a later date...

seems that the main issue is gtk support and the gtk developers are  
keen on native support
little understanding as possible on my part....

regards


Jonathan Chetwynd

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On 4 Sep 2008, at 15:31, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> Yeah, but that scrollwheel should be mapped to buttons 3/4 like the  
> mouse scroll wheel...
>
> /shrug
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 05:13, Scott Johnson wrote:
>
>> Some tablets have a scroll "wheel" (like most mice do these days).
>> Actually, the scroll mechanism is usually a trackpad ("touchstrip"),
>> but it serves the same purpose.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at berkeley.edu 
>> > wrote:
>>> Tilt is 3&4... and it looks to me like 5 is somehow labled  
>>> "wheel" ...
>>> though I'm not exactly sure what that means...
>>>
>>> On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:20, Julien Lusson wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Could you run 'xinput test 7' and tell me what axis 2-5 are for?
>>>>
>>>> It gives me that :
>>>>
>>>> me at ubuntu:~# xinput test 7
>>>> motion a[0]=4225 a[1]=2898 a[2]=0 a[3]=0 a[4]=0 a[5]=0
>>>> (...)
>>>>
>>>> When I "touch" the tablet with the stylus :
>>>> button press   1 a[0]=7803 a[1]=4348 a[2]=53 a[3]=0 a[4]=0 a[5]=0
>>>> then :
>>>> button release 1 a[0]=7794 a[1]=4350 a[2]=0 a[3]=0 a[4]=0 a[5]=0
>>>>
>>>> So 2 is the pressure. But for 3 to 5 : always 0.
>>>>
>>>> I've saw that : http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/faq
>>>> "Note, tilt is only supported with protocol V tablets, which  
>>>> include
>>>> Intuos series and Cintiq 21UX to date (Nov. 9, 2006). Any other
>>>> tablets don't have tilt no matter you have the tilt option in your
>>>> xorg.conf or not."
>>>>
>>>> So maybe my tablet can't handle tilt... (I've put the tilt option  
>>>> in
>>>> the xorg.conf) (It's the "graphire 4", A6, bought for 90 euros end
>>>> 2006)
>>>>
>>>>> I 'd like someone to
>>>>> please verify this for me by sshing into their Mac OSX box from  
>>>>> their
>>>>> linux
>>>>> box and running /Applications/Gimp.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ 
>>>>> gimp-2.4
>>>>> ...
>>>>> you should notice that it doesn't like your tablet.  If you  
>>>>> could test
>>>>> Inkscape in this manor as well, I'd appreciate it...
>>>>
>>>> I don't use the "Gimp.app" but the "macports" gimp. And I've no  
>>>> linux
>>>> box to test (I use linux on the mac) maybe with VMWare Fusion it  
>>>> can
>>>> work. I'll try, I've Fedora 9 64bits installed.
>>>>
>>>> I'm happy that tablet support will come in GIMP & Inkscape, it's  
>>>> the
>>>> "main" problem for me with "nix" programs on OSX !
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>> Industrial Mathematics Institute
>> Department of Mathematics
>> University of South Carolina
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