On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 08:46:26PM +1200, Jason alavaliant wrote: > 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)).
you can't disable the touchstrips. we send the pure strip data because some clients seem to want them, but you can't unmap that part. Fixinig your application seems the better way to work around this bug, or, since you say you can't fix the application, hack up the driver so that the strip values are always 0. Cheers, Peter > > 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 Since maya 2010 is an out of date closed source 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
