Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Inconsistencies between xsetwacom 'get all' and 'get parameter'

[James P. <ja...@mo...>]

Jason Gerecke wrote:
> 
> That's a good list of things that should probably be addressed... The
> issues you've brought up are either bugs or otherwise unintentional:
> 
> "No longer in use" -- By default, "get all" uses the "xorg.conf"
> output format. The driver still requires the use of the old names when
> giving the options through xorg.conf which is why it doesn't use the
> new names. One way around this would be to run xsetwacom with the "-s"
> switch to use the "shell" output format instead. This prints out
> everything as a series of xsetwacom commands which use the new names.
> That's not really a full solution though because of the next issue...
> 
> "TabletID not listed in 'all' output" -- Neither the xorg.conf nor the
> shell output format will print anything for read-only properties. Both
> of these output formats assume that you're using them because you want
> to set the property, and it would be impossible to set a read-only
> property. If "get all" used the "default" output format instead, the
> value would be printed out. "Default" doesn't work as-is though since
> it doesn't bother printing out the name of the property. This could be
> worked around though.

Thanks for the explanation - although it is rather confusing that 'get 
all' and 'get $parameter' use different output formats by default ... 
and that the man page doesn't make it clear that 'get all' excludes the 
read-only parameters

> "Serial is unknown" -- Your patch looks like the right solution for
> this particular issue. If you send it to the linuxwacom-devel list as
> a git-formatted patch with description and "Signed-off-by" line, we
> can integrate it in to the next release.

Done - I hope it is in the required format ...

James Pearson