Wacom Intuos3 side buttons and touch strips?

[duffman.c.d]

Sorry for the late response, it's been a busy week.
Turns out this is a known bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...om/+bug/560180
The solution seems to be

Upgrading to xf86-input-wacom 0.10.6 should also solve this issue.

I haven't tried it yet as the process seems to be complicated (See comment #12 in bug report), I think I'll just wait for the repository to have the updated driver.

Thanks for the help.
CD

[Favux]

Hi duffman.c.d,

Actually it's pretty easy. Follow II. in this HOW TO.

[duffman.c.d]

Thanks for the help Favux.
That did the trick.
The buttons are by default just the mouse buttons 1-8 so I set up an xsetwacom shell script like the one in the tutorial. Each line was (on my machine pad wasn't recognised so I had to use the full name):

xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos3 6x8 pad" Button1 "key alt"

with the button number changing and alt replaced by the needed key(s) like ctrl or ctrl shift F2

Once the script was added to the "System>Preferences>Startup Applications" everything worked. The arrangements of keys on the Intuos3 were (again 'scuse ASCII art, this is for the Button1, Button2 etc above):

|---|---|       |---|---|
|   | 1 |       | 5 |   |
| 3 |---|       |---| 7 |
|   | 2 |       | 6 |   |
|---|---|       |---|---|
|   4   |       |   8   |
|-------|       |-------|

Thanks again for your help, hope this will be useful for someone else.

[Favux]

Hi duffman.c.d,

Excellent!

Let's get a xsetwacom script together for the Intuous3. What are you using currently?

It has a stylus, two stylus buttons, eraser, two "pads" (two clusters of 4 buttons), does each cluster have a slider? Does it also have a Wacom mouse?

[duffman.c.d]

I don't have a mouse but I believe one is available.
There is a slider on each side (StripLUp/Dn and StripRUp/Dn)
There are four buttons on each side Button1-Button8.
I've only recently got the pad and haven't used it much so I'm not entirely sure what buttons I want, for the moment I'm using the default of ctrl, alt, and shift on both sides and just using the strips to scroll.

I'm sure there are better layouts but I'm not sure what they are.
(when using Gimp for example I'll change the left strip to [ and ] to resize the brush)

[Favux]

Great. Let's not worry about layout, because everyone will end up with their own. We just want a default example.

It looks like they can have a mouse, so we'll have to put that in:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0409/04...comintuos3.asp
http://www.google.com/products/catal...809&sa=title#p

Can you post your?:

xinput --list

I can probably guess the rest from what you posted, but better to be sure.

[duffman.c.d]

Attached is the result from xinput -list (yes I have two keyboards a mouse and a wacom attached to the one computer!)

I don't know if Wacom Intuos3 6x8 cursor is the (optional) mouse or if it is different.

xinput-list.txt

[Favux]

You're right, cursor is what linuxwacom calls the Wacom mouse. OK, well the mouse section won't be the best until we get a cursor to test with. But at least we'll make it clear there is suppose to be a cursor section.

[Favux]

Hi duffman.c.d,

Alright, here's a first try. I used a bunch of different stuff in pad so we can see what works.

[duffman.c.d]

Faux,
Most of the script works. There are a few changes needed (at least on my PC):
the tab needs a capital T
pageup and pagedown don't work, using xev I got Prior and Next (with capitals) for pageUp and pageDown when I inserted them into the script it worked.
NumPlus and NumMinus don't work I got KP_Add and KP_Subtract with xev
' doesn't work, I got apostrophe with xev (no caps)
I'm not sure if this is just my computer, or Lucid (x64) or what but they worked for me.
Also, my ClickForce had a range of 1-2048 (the number of pressure steps for the Intuos3) not 1-21 and was shared between the eraser and the stylus. Whichever was set last became the ClickForce. E.g. set stylus ClickForce to 1, then eraser to 2048. if you checked the stylus ClickForce it returned 1 but you had to push really hard to register a click on either the pen or eraser.

Other than those few things everything works.