[DIGImend-devel] Config GUI for pen / touch on multiple monitors

[Hrobjartur T. <tho...@gm...>]

Dear DIGImend users and devs,

We are a couple of Ubuntu users who are super glad that DIGImend is
supporting our
new Yiynova (UC-Logic / Huion ) tablet monitor - Thanks to you all !
We wrote to Nikolai earlier this week, he thought it might be useful to
contact people
on this list with our GUI prototype. My apologies if this subject is
irrelevant to you.

Would anyone with multiple monitor (extended desktop) setup be willing to
test our
config app with their pen tablet or touch device?
Maybe tell us if it is useful to them, or if there are some missing
features?

To try it out just follow the instructions on
http://wenhsinjen.github.io/ptxconf/

Also, if some software devs out there are interested to help us out with
coding then
that would be REALLY good.

This project should work OK on debian based distros, not sure about others
yet.
But also it is only really in the Proof Of Concept stage, a pure mock-up.

For example, the application does not talk directly to the xserver but
invokes
the command line apps xrandr and xinput. This is not portable we know...
We hope that if this kind of app is useful to others then we might improve
the code to be
more portable across all linux/xwindows platforms, preferably merge it with
xrestrict,
which talks to x11 and xinput directly.

Basically our Ubuntu 14.04 only supports GUI configuration of "Wacom (TM)"
pointing
devices. It seems the Wacom config rejects our Yiynova/UC-Logic/Huion type
tablet.
So we were forced to set xinput transformation matrices by hand or in bash
scripts that we wrote.
However, problem was we regularly adjust our monitor placements and setup,
sometimes plugging in a TV and so on... So we decided to started this small
project
for adjusting the pen/touch controll graphically.  Please try it out if you
also share our
interest in using extended desktop with your device.

All the best,
Hrob and Linda

thorsteinssonh and wenhsinjen on github.