Re: [DIGImend-users] Huion 610p tablet and hardware buttons

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

Hi Alec,

On 03/25/2015 03:39 PM, Alec Teal wrote:
> I hate to do this but it's been 5 days and now all I'm finding from
> search results are my own questions.
>
> This is not an area I've ever had to deal with (anything with the letter
> x infront of it that is) but I really need at least an undo button.
>
> I did try with xbindkeys, but I don't want to remap "normal" keyboard
> shortcuts and Gimp doesn't recognise that the tablet has hardware buttons.
>
> Also the undo button (top one, causes active window to [attempt] to
> close) causes a segfault with xbindkeys -k which is really weird.
>
> Anyway how can I help fix this? I really need that undo button.

You can try to use the latest development version with the Wacom tablet driver
(xf86-input-wacom). The latest development version is available here:

     https://github.com/DIGImend/digimend-kernel-drivers/archive/master.zip

Build and install the above as described in README.md. Then install the Wacom
tablet driver (xf86-input-wacom) from your distro package repositories.

Put this into a file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, e.g.
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-huion.conf:

     Section "InputClass"
             Identifier "Huion tablet"
             MatchUSBID "256c:006e"
             MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
             Driver "wacom"
     EndSection

Then restart X, or just the whole machine.

Connect the tablet and check if the Wacom driver has gotten hold of the tablet.
The output of "xsetwacom --list" should list your tablet devices. There should
be a pad and a stylus device.

If that's so, you should be able to use the "xsetwacom" command to change the
button bindings. E.g. to make the first button send "Ctrl-Z" (i.e. "Undo"),
you'll need to execute this command:

     xsetwacom --set "DEVICE_NAME" Button 1 key +ctrl +z -z -ctrl

where DEVICE_NAME is the pad device name from the "xsetwacom --list" output.
In my case the "xsetwacom --list" output was this:

     10594 Pad pad                           id: 13  type: PAD
     10594 Pen stylus                        id: 14  type: STYLUS

and the command, this:

     xsetwacom --set "10594 Pad pad" Button 1 key +ctrl +z -z -ctrl

Please read "xsetwacom" man page for more details on its usage.

Nick