Questions tagged [wacom]
Graphics tablet that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics.
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Wacom Intuos S only recognized in Android Mode
Second edit: Since this question keeps getting attention, I want to put a clear disclaimer at the top: if you are experiencing this problem, it will likely be solved by pressing and holding the left-...
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How to map wacom correctly to monitor
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and I am running dual screens(23inch and 15 inch). I have a wacom intuos 2 9x12 that will will not map correctly to my second monitor which is also 9x12(1400x1050). The reason ...
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Only half of Wacom Intuos tablet area maps to entire screen horizontally
This happens in two different computers, one with Ubuntu 20.04 and another with 18.04.
The left 40% of the tablet maps horizontally to the entire monitor, while vertically it works fine - bottom to ...
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Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch CTH-470 3+ finger gestures
I love my CTH-470 and I'm glad it's without having to spend hours in the Terminal to get it working since I believe 12.10 (which I'm running now). But in the manual it states that you can swipe with ...
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Configuring Wacom Tablet buttons and options
I have a new Wacom Intuos5 Touch Medium. Surprisingly enough, it worked out of the box when I connected it to my computer (Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit), including the pen pressure and some touch pad features. ...
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Wacom Graphics Tablet CTH-480 / CTL-480 Not Detected In Ubuntu 13.10
My Wacom tablet (CTH-480) is not detected by the Wacom Tablet option under settings. The Tablet shows up when I run lsusb but does not show up under settings. Again Thanks.
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Run modprobe on startup
I need to run sudo modprobe wacom at startup to prevent an unrecoverable kernel panic (a blackscreen drop to terminal with repeating 1second audio looping and zero responsiveness) from occurring when ...
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One by Wacom does not work in Ubuntu 18.04.4
I purchased a One by Wacom tablet and it does not work in my Ubuntu laptop. This means, in particular,
lsusb returns Bus 001 Device 004: ID 056a:037b Wacom Co., Ltd
Wacom Tablet in Devices in ...
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How do I enable pressure for my Wacom Intuos L?
I saw a few answers that give a very long procedure to install some drivers but they are very old. The tablet works but there is no pressure sensitivity Not in Krita, MyPaint or Gimp.
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How do you turn off touch on a Wacom Bamboo CTH-470?
I bought my girlfriend a Wacom Bamboo CTH-470 recently and it is running well after installing wacom-dkms. I have now run into a wall that I don't know how to get around. The touch on the tablet will ...
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Pen cursor in Xournal
I use Xournal to give lectures and do various other tasks. So far it's taken a little adjustment to write using my wacom tablet but it works fantastically.
My only complaint is the cursor. Xournal ...
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Wacom Bamboo CTH-670 is not detected
I've a Wacom Bamboo Create Pen Tablet (CTH-670) which is not detected by the system settings, ubuntu 11.10
uname -r 3.0.0-13-generic-pae
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root ...
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How do I change xsetwacom and make the settings stay on startup?
I am running Ubuntu 10.10 and finally got a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet to work.
However, I would like to change some settings (assign buttons;remove touch feature;...) and make them stay on ...
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How to install Wacom Bamboo Pen
I have a new Wacom Bamboo Pen. I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 64bit.
After googling a little bit, I checked that xserver-xorg-input-wacom was installed. I plugged in my tablet. I rebooted my computer. ...
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Pressure Sensitivity with Wacom Bamboo in Inkscape 0.48
The pressure sensitivity for my Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch in Inkscape 0.48 (running Ubuntu 12.04) does not work.
I ticked all options in Input Devices (Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus; Wacom ...
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Why is my Wacom Intuos tablet not detected?
I need a little help trying to install a Wacom Intuos tablet, model number CTL-480/S. My installation of Ubuntu 13.04, 64bit, doesn't seem to be able to detect the device. I've tried an few different ...
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How to change pen movement speed on wacom tablet?
I tried to install the wacom tablet linux project thing, but when I did ./configure; make; make-install; it said there's no make file or something. I just need a way to change my pen movement speed. ...
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Multiple cursors with Wacom and Wayland
I am using Ubuntu 17.10 with Wayland. It is detecting my Wacom tablet and I can use it for free painting, but the pen does not take over the main cursor, so I can see 2 cursors.
Seeing them would not ...
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How do I configure a Wacom stylus on Ubuntu 17.04?
I just bought a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga, which has a Wacom touchscreen and stylus.
They both work well-ish, but I want to remap buttons on the pen and the long press behavior. In previous Ubuntu ...
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xsetwacom can't map keys correctly
I recently bought a Wacom Intuos listed with xsetwacom as Wacom Intuos PT M. I figured out how to configure the buttons and actions, but when I try to set any button to some particular letters, they ...
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Wacom tablet support in Ubuntu
I am thinking of buying a Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet for drawing with an Ubuntu installation.
I seem to remember there being settings specifically for Wacom in the Settings Manager. Is that still the ...
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How to configure Wacom tablet area on Ubuntu 14.04?
I started using Ubuntu 14.04 recently, but I'm having problems to configure my wacom tablet settings.
The main problem is I want to reduce the tablet area, but I don't see that option on the wacom ...
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Does the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch work out of the box?
Is there any tweaking involved in Ubuntu 10.10 to make the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch work? And is this hardware getting some love from the new multitouch framework?
If there's no multitouch ...
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How can I configure the express keys for my Intuos drawing tablet?
I am running Xubuntu 14.04 and my tablet is CTH-680 or Intuos Pen and Touch Medium.
I used xsetwacom to assign key press a, b, c, d to buttons 1 to 4 of "Wacom Intuos PT M Finger pad" but when I ...
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Note taking app for to use with pen tablets
I am looking for an app that with which I can draw on it to make sketches and take notes with my Wacom tablet. It should preferably support "new page" so that after my work I can save the whole ...
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How do I install a Wacom Bamboo Fun?
I own a Wacom Bamboo Fun CTH-661 and would like to know how I make it work on Ubuntu 10.10. I am a Linux newbie trying to migrate from Windows, so it would be wonderful to have a step-by-step answer.
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What virtual keyboards are available which are most touch-friendly?
I've installed the 12.0.4 beta on my Dell latitude XT2 and although I can navigate Dash with my fingers, but the Onboard onscreen keyboard does not pop up when I want to search for applications in ...
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Strange behaviour with Gimp and Wacom
When I enable the wacom tablet in the Gimp extended input devices (setting it to 'screen'), to use the pressure sensitivity, it starts to behave strangely. I cannot pick guides from the rulers and the ...
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Disable touch of the tablet in Ubuntu Unity 14.04
I've searched beforehand and the only suggestion I've found is this one but it doesn't work, at least not on my system (Ubuntu Unity 14.04 x64).
I need to disable the touch on my WACOM Bamboo Manga ...
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How to use pressure sensitive drawing in a Linux-based browser?
Wacom provides a web browser plugin that allows pressure sensitive drawing with their and other PenAPI compatible tablets in a browser. Unfortunately their plugin only supports Windows and Mac OS X. ...
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How to change tablet orientation with kubuntu 18.04 and wacom bamboo CTL-470
I am using a Wacom Bamboo tablet CTL-470 with a kubuntu 18.04 and I want to rotate it 180° so that the USB input is on the right side, not on the left as it is now.
I installed the newest packages ( ...
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Wacom tablet: slow tracking speed - Ubuntu 17.10
I got an Intuos Wacom tablet and am trying to use it as a touchpad on Ubuntu 17.10, but the cursor speed is too slow.
I tried the settings but even if I set it to the fastest possible, it is still ...
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Restart Touchscreen after resume
I have a Thinkpad Yoga 14 with support for Pen and Touch on the screen. When resuming, sometimes the networking does not work properly. I can fix this with service network-manager restart. What also ...
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Wacom tablet - how to map the "ctrl" key?
I have a Wacom Cintiq 13HD tablet and I'm trying to map the buttons, but it doesn't let me map "ctrl" by itself. It can be ctrl+something, but not just ctrl. How can I map the ctrl key? Is there some ...
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How can I configure the buttons of my wacom tablet?
I have a Wacom Bamboo tablet (MTE-450A). It works out of the box on 11.10, even the scrolling function works (it used not to).
Unfortunately the four buttons are assigned to things I don't know. How ...
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Can't configure Wacom tablet stylus
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04, installed it on a clean HDD 5 days ago.
I've just plugged in my Wacom tablet - which is Wacom Bamboo CTL-470, and it worked instantly - stylus moves the mouse around, ...
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set left handed mouse, then wacom stylus buttons switch too
I'm using Lubuntu 12.04. I can set my mouse (basic usb mouse) to left hand (i.e. switch the left and right mouse buttons which is all I need) by going into Preferences / Keyboard and Mouse.
However, ...
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How to configure wacom devices manually
In ubuntu 11.10 with xorg-1:7.6+7ubuntu7 and xserver-xorg-input-wacom 1:0.11.0-0ubuntu2
I've put in xorg.conf:
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "pen" # "eraser"|"finger"|...
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Using keyboard-shortcuts with convertible
I have a Lenovo L13 Yoga and Lenovo ThinkPad Pen Pro with Ubuntu 19.10 installed on it.
I'd like to be able to use certain keyboard shortcuts while the notebook is folded down (especially shift + prt ...
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Digital pen or smart pen which has support for Ubuntu 14.04
I am looking for a digital pen to take handwritten notes which can be later transferred to computer to edit or save.
All the available digital pens come with their own software and they support ...
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How do I install my Wacom Intuos 2 serial tablet?
I've seen many topics on the subjects but they are too complicated for me. I'm not confident in compiling stuff.
Is there some headache-free way to make it work under Ubuntu?
Where do I start?
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Ubuntu 14.04. 2 does not recognize my Wacom Intuos tablet draw (ctl-490b)
Ubuntu 14.04. 2 does not recognize my Wacom Intuos tablet draw (ctl-490b). I found very little information, I looked at the linuxwacom project
I tried installing the drivers but it did not work, ...
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Get battery level of Wacom tablet?
I've been playing about with a Wacom Intuous drawing tablet lately using the wireless kit, and everything I want to do works just fine, but I have no way of checking the battery level. According to ...
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Wacom Intuous tablet not mapping to single monitor
After a recent kernel upgrade, I lost the use of my Wacom tablet (Wacom Intuos Pro Pen and Touch Tablet, Large). I used to use the tablet together with Xournal++ to take notes for my online lectures. ...
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Configure wacom ExpressKeys to click
I've just bought an Intuos5 tablet and going to use it for some map digitizing under Ubuntu Linux 12.04 and 13.04. Map digitizing is quite different than sketching - I need to position the cursor ...
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Configuring wacom tablet on Ubuntu 12.10 by installing missing dependencies
I've been reading a book on Gimp. The book recommended that I visit the LinuxWacom Project for the drivers of a Wacom tablet I own.
After extracting the tarball, I have to configure and make ...
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Intuos BT S on Ubuntu 18.04
I have this tablet and it is clearly connecting and recognizing. However, when I go to "Devices" -> "Wacom Tablet", nothing shows up on either "Stylus" or "Tablet" tabs.
I believe this is the ...
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Wacom BambooFun can't change mode to relative
I was recently trying to set up my Wacom BambooFun hard way - using xsetwacom commands.
I managed to do almost all set up, but when I try using:
xsetwacom set "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 Pad pad" "Mode" "...
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Remove wacom from my system
I purged the "xserver-xorg-input-wacom" package, yet the Wacom entries still appear in gnome-control-panel and my system menus.
How can I get rid of them?
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Unable to use or install the wacom bamboo tablet
i am trying to install wacom driver in ubuntu 11.10. I am unable to install it as the driver is only available for gnome 2.:(