[ubuntu-uk] wacom bamboo

[Norman Silverstone]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:46 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 16:12 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > Bruno, I am not sure whether what I observe is a bug in Ubuntu or GIMP
> > so, I will state my observations and look for advice. Just to confirm, I
> > am using Ubuntu 10.04 RC, Wacom Bamboo tablet and GIMP 2.6.8.
> > 
> > Firstly, the cursor pointer and the circle indicating the size of a
> > brush do not coincide. Further, the movement of the circle does not
> > follow the movement of the pointer.
> 
> OK so that's bug #1. A screenshot would help to show exactly how the
> cursor pointer does not coincide with what actually happens in Gimp.
> 
> > 
> > Secondly, the script which sets up the buttons and which worked in
> > Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 does not work in 10.04. The script is attached.
> 
> What version of xsetwacom is used on Ubuntu 9.04? The version on Lucid
> is 0.10.5. According to the guide about xsetwacom[1], the format
> accepted by the xsetwacom command differs from the one you are using. In
> your script, to set pad attributes you basically do:
> 
> xsetwacom set "Wacom Bamboo pad" AbsWDn "CORE KEY - "
> 
> while the guide has examples along the lines of:
> 
> xsetwacom set pad AbsWDn "CORE KEY - "
> 
> Similary, for the stylus, your script does:
> 
> xsetwacom set "Wacom Bamboo" TPCButton "off"
> 
> while the guide has examples like this:
> 
> xsetwacom set Stylus TPCButton "off"
> 
> If you change the script so that lines 14 and 15 read:
> 
> test "x$PAD" = "x" && PAD="pad"
> test "x$STYLUS" = "x" && STYLUS="Stylus"
> 
> does it make a difference?
> 
> Otherwise, I suggest you try the commands individually from the command
> line to see what works and what doesn't and update your script
> accordingly. For those that don't work, the package to report the bug
> against is xserver-xorg-input-wacom
> 
> [1] http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/xsetwacom
> 
> 
> > 
> > There is a further problem which is not connected with the Wacom but I
> > include the reference to the bug report because it may be useful.
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=612956
> > 
> 
> That's probably unrelated. Apparently the fix has been committed in Gimp
> 2.6 so it should only be a matter of time until it is fixed in Ubuntu.
> On the other hand, it could be useful to ensure that the bug is also
> reported in Ubuntu Launchpad so that there is visibility from the Ubuntu
> packagers.
> 
Thank you very much indeed for your suggestions, I will now see what I
can do.

Norman