[Xquartz-dev] wacom tablet question / help

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Uhm... The support is there.  You just need to compile gtk with the -- 
with-xinput configure option to get it

On Sep 9, 2008, at 12:05, Jonathan Chetwynd  
<j.chetwynd at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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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