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I'm getting an error writing in Xournal that looks like this:

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That is, whenever my pen touches the screen, it draws a line from upper left off-screen to the point where I connect.

I remember having a problem when I first installed Ubuntu on a tablet years ago, in like 2007, when the solution was much fiddling in xorg.conf, which I don't believe is even used anymore. How can I fix this? I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 in a virtualbox on a surface pro 2.

UPDATE

Seems to be confined to virtualbox, actually? Trying to isolate the bug, I exported my virtual machine and loaded it in VMWare Player. There, I was able to use Xournal without this error. (However, there I have a bunch of new errors I don't want, so I'd prefer a solution still for Virtualbox.)

UPDATE 2

I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a new machine and have the same problem. This does not seem to be limited to either Xournal or virtualbox. It occurs both virtualized and native. Is this just generally a bug in ubuntu's wacom drivers? Also, how would I be the lucky person to get this bug on 2 totally separate devices (on MS Surface Pro, one Lenovo X1) where no one else seems to get it at all?

UPDATE 3

Just got a notification I still had this up. Intervening updates still haven't fixed this. I basically just can't use the tablet function in Ubuntu.

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  • Which version of xournal and which tablet? I am using xournal with a wacom cth-480 and, although it happens sometime to me too, it's really sporadic.
    – Rmano
    Mar 15, 2014 at 21:53
  • Xournal Version 4.7-1, tablet is Surface Pro 2. Mar 16, 2014 at 2:36
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    Same than mine. Can't really help a lot... better trying to reach the developers via the mailing list: sourceforge.net/p/xournal/mailman/xournal-devel. Development is quite slow but not stopped. Otherwise you can try xournal++ at github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/releases
    – Rmano
    Mar 16, 2014 at 3:36
  • This is a bug and can't be "answered" by us but developers.
    – Braiam
    Mar 22, 2014 at 4:44
  • What version on virtualbox you use?
    – Cyril
    Mar 24, 2014 at 10:31

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