Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Preview release of the 'wacom-config'

[Dirk B. <dbw...@gm...>]

Great work so far. The GUI is a great development for wacom users. But 
for me the configuration won't be used by the system. I'm running Ubuntu 
6.06. It seems the .xinitrc isn't executed at startup. Altering the 
expresskeys settings works fine though.

Hope you can handle this at time.

Dirk

Jason alavaliant schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on a wacom control panel similar to wacomcpl but 
> with the added ability to configure expresskeys 
> (http://web.comhem.se/~u46139352/wacom/index.html 
> <http://web.comhem.se/%7Eu46139352/wacom/index.html>).  It's mainly to 
> help at my work as we have many Intuos 3 tablets which users want to 
> use the 'pad' on and they are mostly artists  who are not going to 
> understand keycodes and how to alter the config file for expreskeys by 
> hand.    It's also designed to be simplified for the artists so it 
> does a few things like combine senstivity controls for the stylus and 
> the eraser into one.
>
> It's downloadable from 
> http://alavaliant.googlepages.com/wacom-config.py if you want to take 
> a look.  I've only tested it with Debian (Unstable) and Ubuntu ( 5.10 
> and 6.06) but I think it should work on any Linux system with python 
> 2.4+ and pygtk 2.6+? (may be 2.8).
> It's a self contained python script so all you need to do is download, 
> set executable and then run it.  (Just make sure how you download it 
> doesn't mangle the formatting as python doesn't like that)
>
> It interacts with the wacom drivers in rather crude ways ('xsetwacom 
> list dev' must have 'stylus' on it's list, 'xidump -l -v stylus' must 
> give output so it can get the tablet area), beyond that it stores 
> tablet settings in ~/.xinitrc and ~/.expresskeys/expresskeys.conf as 
> per normal so it should on paper be able to use wacomcpl settings and 
> manual expresskeys setups.  (I'd say backup your files first though if 
> you have any setting files you've spend months making just to be safe.)
>
> It's mostly complete at this time, the only big issue I'm still 
> working on trying to find a solution for is that on systems that don't 
> execute xinitrc on login none of the tablet settings will get set on 
> login (and express keys won't be started.)   (I'm guessing .login 
> might be a choice for those systems but I'm not sure of a good way to 
> test if .xinitrc is used on login easily.)
>
> Also I'm unsure about settings for the 'cursor' as I don't have a 
> wacom mouse.   Do any of the speed and sensitivity controls do 
> anything for it?   xsetwacom lets me alter their settings for 'cursor' 
> but I'm not sure if that actually do anything...  (So I've got them as 
> options for cursor in wacom-config but I'm not sure if it makes sense 
> having them there.)
>
> Anyway try it out and let me know what you think and if it 
> works/doesn't work.  I'm not really a programmer (yet?) and this is 
> the first largest thing I've written to date by quite a bit but so far 
> it seems to be working ok.
>
> -Jason
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