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daniel - Ubuntu 8.10 X61t Tablet Setup (With Touch)

daniel — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:35:54 +0000

Problem: 2nd Display on VGA-Port As soon as I connect a second display, the calibration of the pen is lost. I am guessing it takes the size of the second display instead of the host display.

daniel - Ubuntu 8.10 X61t Tablet Setup (With Touch)

daniel — Sun, 23 May 2010 09:53:11 +0000

Hi Aliencam, First of all thank you very much for your great posts. Especially the posts on the tablet and how to get the pen and rotation working. Worked like a charm on 9.04 and 9.10! Now I have got difficulties implementing the changes into Lucid 10.04: 1. Apparently xorg.conf and hal isn't available anymore. Replaced by: /usr/lib/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-wacom.conf 2. For right-click under the section "Wacom serial class" I added: Option "Button2" "3" and Option "Button3" "2". But the behavior of the right-click is strange. It already triggers before the tip of the pen touches the screen. 3. Got no clue how to implement the rotation and its buttons into Lucid 10.04. Does it need to be in 10-wacom.confg? Would it be possible for you to help me and I guess others out please? Maybe an update of your article. I am pretty frustrated because I already spent several hours trying to figure out a solution. Thank you in advance.

aliencam - Ubuntu 8.10 X61t Tablet Setup (With Touch)

aliencam — Sat, 8 May 2010 02:06:58 +0000

Great! glad to know it still works, I'm downloading the update right now, and I was a little worried when I saw "wacom-tools" was going to be removed during the upgrade.

Cari - Ubuntu 8.10 X61t Tablet Setup (With Touch)

Cari — Sat, 8 May 2010 02:01:18 +0000

Just stopping by to report that this fix works for all who recently upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx. :] Thanks for the post, again! You're a lifesaver (again)!

lucacelbun - lol weird dream.

lucacelbun — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:37:05 +0000

weirdest dream ever: http://lucacelbun.blogspot.com/2010/04/dream-10-n...

aliencam - Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

aliencam — Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:24:40 +0000

When I press the "toolbox" button on the tablet, xev gives me: FocusOut event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor FocusIn event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x4400001, mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor KeymapNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x0, keys: 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 but the ctrl-alt-del button doesn't give me anything. thinkwiki might be able to help, its page on the tablet hardware buttons is a little sparse though. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tablet_Hardware_But...

ranjan - Ubuntu Setup Guide Part VI. Customizing Gnome's Look & Feel

ranjan — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:22:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing this information .. Today i tried to install this above mentioned application on my Hp mini but I was having an issue with window picker it was not showing up in the dialog box .. So I gave and logout from my session and re-login to my account .. then it showed up .. in dialog box .. and this helped me to add this stuff on my panel .. thanks ..

eudinaesis - Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

eudinaesis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:11:42 +0000

Hi, I can't figure out how to get two of the tablet buttons, the reset button or the tablet-menu button, working in 9.10 - they worked fine earlier. You say they 'just worked' -- any clue why they wouldn't for me? Perhaps because I originally installed this as xubuntu rather than ubuntu, and then installed the ubuntu-desktop on top? Anyway, the tablet-menu button automatically blanks the screen, and the reset one doesn't do anything; neither shows up as keypresses with Xev or acpi_listen... arrrgh! I can't seem to find your email on this page - anyhow, mine is eudinaesis ... at ... google's mail ...

aliencam - Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

aliencam — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:08:19 +0000

I get about 3 hours in 9.10, which is kind of upsetting, because I got 7+ hours in 8.10... I haven't done any battery tweaking yet, I might have to get on that. Firefox, flash (npviewer.bin) and banshee are my main battery killers. are you using powertop?

mace - Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

mace — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:44:40 +0000

hows your battery life? I've got the same setup with the 8 cell battery, i can get around 6+ hours in Win7, only 2 or so in 9.10. Kinda new to Linux, any suggestions would be great.

aliencam - Ubuntu 9.04 Setup Guide

aliencam — Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:43:35 +0000

you need to (in wacomcpl), go to stylus > tool buttons > then set "button 2" to "right" and "button 3" to middle. to get wacomcpl working, follow this: http://blog.aliencam.net/2010/01/wacom-cpl-config...

aliencam - Ubuntu Setup Guide VIII. Wacom Tablet Config & Rotation

aliencam — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:16:22 +0000

Do you have a thinkpad convertible tablet? The only reason I can think of that nothing would come back from "xsetwacom list" is if the tablet somehow isn't plugged in. In the x60/61/200 tablets, the tablet is wired in as USB (x60 might be serial), so you shouldn't be able to unplug it...

Igor G. - Ubuntu Setup Guide VIII. Wacom Tablet Config & Rotation

Igor G. — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:48:57 +0000

I followed your tutorial up until running "xsetwacom list", and I got nothing. Any ideas?

dan - Ubuntu 9.04 Setup Guide

dan — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:40:18 +0000

Hi Aliencam, First of all thank you for your great website! It's very detailed and very helpful. haves: x200t with Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 wants: Stylus and rotation work fine. I want to use the side button as a right click. Xorg is apparently history (looking for a solution for 3 hrs and getting nothing to work is frustrating). Can you help me to configure right click with wacom/fdi? Thanks in advance. Regards, Dan

aliencam - Thinkpad Middle Mouse Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10

aliencam — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:39:52 +0000

Another reason that there isn't much demand for these kind of simple configurations is that most linux users can figure out things like this, through google or some other means, even if they aren't programmers. I certainly do not claim to be a programmer, the most I can do is HTML and some BASH scripting. Most of what I post here is compiled from pieces I found on other websites (thats why I post a "sources" at the end usually). because windows and OSX aren't free, the companies that make them can afford to hire artists, and "normal people" to see how things could be easier. Linux is rarely sponsored by a commercial company, and most of it's developers are volunteers. It is much harder to get these people who aren't inherently interested in something like Linux (artists, design people, etc) to volunteer their time and efforts.

Jerk - Thinkpad Middle Mouse Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10

Jerk — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:30:52 +0000

To answer your question more directly, which I figure is the least I can do after my shi**y comment, it's not as if the developers went out of there way to make Linux difficult -- its just that the Windows and Macintosh developers /did/ go out of their way (probably because they were paid good money to do so) to make things easy in those operating systems. For example, in Windows, this probably works very similarly to how it apparently works in Linux -- there are low-level drivers that load some configuration data to decide how to behave. The only difference is, that in Windows, someone was paid good money to do the boring work of writing a GUI to write those configuration files, whereas in Linux, nobody has bothered. Since the source is open, instead of complaining about it, a good solution would be to fix it yourself by writing a GUI to manipulate the .fdi files. It wouldn't be that difficult and afterwards you could stop feeling insecure about not being a programmer because you would be one. -gmt

Jerk - Thinkpad Middle Mouse Scrolling in Ubuntu 8.10

Jerk — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:16:25 +0000

Typical shi**y response that will just make you feel even more alienated, I suppose, but that isn't code and this isn't programming, imo.

aliencam - Thinkpad Fan Control in Ubuntu

aliencam — Fri, 6 Nov 2009 06:11:45 +0000

it should work, but I haven't tested it so i'm not sure... It wouldn't hurt anything to try.

troll - Thinkpad Fan Control in Ubuntu

troll — Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:34:48 +0000

Does this work on the ideapad like lenovo s10?

sanktnelson - Raw Configuration Logs 1

sanktnelson — Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:02:12 +0000

okay, I have all the wacom input stuff sorted out now, this was very helpful: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/X61T I have not found a satisfactory solution for autorotation yet. Why actually doesn't acpid act on the events anymore? They're still visible with acpi_listen.