Hi, I could use some advise with an issue I've run into with my test users
of wacom-config.
In some cases my users need to completely disable the touchstrips on the
tablet (so pressing them results in not one single X event).
The best I've come up with so far is mapping the strip to a button 0 event
(i.e. xsetwacom set 'Wacom Intuos3 6x8 pad' StripLUp "button +0" which is
what wacom-config is using in it's code currently) however even though
that mapping results in 0 X events if a button is pressed, the touchstrips
when mapped to 'button 0' still seem to emit a 'MotionNotify' event where
the time value goes up (from what I can see with xev) even though no
keypress events are emitted.
Is there some better / more complete option I can set user pref wise to
completely disable any and all action X wise from the touchstrips? (I
know I could alter the X setup at global level to disable the pad devices
but that also disables the ability to use the buttons on the tablet and it's
not very practical on shared workstations with multiple users logging in
them one after the other (some who would want the touchstrips on and some
who would want them off)).
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks
Jason
p.s. If anybody is curious about why I need such a complete disablement of
the touchstrips, I'm working with users of maya 2010 which seems to have a
rather nasty bug. If a MotionNotify event is recieved when accessing it's
menus maya sends the mouse cursor into a weird state where it can't click on
anything (including maya) until something that grabs it back like switching
virtual desktops occurs. Since the menus are normally near the top of the
screen the users often touch the strips by mistake while using them (we have
Intuos3 6x8s where there are strips at the top of each side of the pad)
hence triggering the bug. Since maya 2010 is an out of date closed source
product I'm not so confident of being able to get a fix from autodesk so I'm
looking for the hopefully easier solution of finding a better way to turn
the strips off.
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