Sean, or anyone else that has experience with ubuntu and wacoms, you did a lightning on your bamboo and getting that to work with Gimp / Inkscape. I followed this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom and installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom wacom-tools and created a default fdi file from the example https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom.fdi So as of right now my tablet (intuitos 3) is recognized when I plug it in, the brush and eraser switch back and forth depending which end of the pen I use, the upper part of the button on the pen acts like a right mouse click, the pressure works, and the right scrolly thing on my touchpad works like a mouse scroll wheel. My question is how do I get the other buttons and the left scrolly thing to work? When I setup a bamboo on XP for my girlfriend the wacom driver had a gui that let you assign a command or key combination, so for instance I had it open firefox with one of the buttons by just browsing to the exe. Thats seems like it would be pretty simple to do on ubuntu but I cannot find out how. In gimp there is a key tab under extended devices but I don't know what it does or how to make is work. I know that I can press a key on my keyboard and the letter appears but when I press a wacom key nothing happens. I tried installing keytouch to see if the keys were sending a code but was unable to load the device with the keytouch editor. In the second link I provided (the fdi file) it says you can "create custom files" using this documentation http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/inputdev unfortunately I cannot make much sense of it or at least I do not see how individual buttons are called.
I know this is long but here is what I would like to accomplish if possible. The two scroll things on the pad I would like one set to the color wheel and the other the contrast. The other buttons I have not decided on yet. Any suggestions? -- Matthias A. Johnson matthias.a.johnson aut gmail dot com
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