I am toying with the idea of adding a graphics tablet to my Slack 13
(or xubuntu) system.
I have never used such a beast so I am looking for recommendations
based on price,

wexfordpress <john at (no spam) wexfordpress.com> wrote:
I am toying with the idea of adding a graphics tablet to my Slack 13 (or
xubuntu) system. I have never used such a beast so I am looking for
recommendations based on price,

FWIW my Wacom Bamboo works pretty nicely under Debian.

Once configured, Gimp even understands pressure (and possibly slant, too,
but I've not tried that).

The tablet required a few tweaks to the xorg.conf, but they're pretty well
documented. The only thing people seem not to be able to sort out is
constraining & scaling the tablet to a single window - it's full screen or
nothing.

I demand that Chris Davies may or may not have written...

wexfordpress <j... at (no spam) wexfordpress.com> wrote:
I am toying with the idea of adding a graphics tablet to my Slack 13 (or
xubuntu) system. I have never used such a beast so I am looking for
recommendations based on price,
FWIW my Wacom Bamboo works pretty nicely under Debian.

I have one too, though I've not used it for much yet.

I don't currently have a working driver for it since I decided to test Xorg
1.7, which is in Debian experimental, but that's not a major problem. (I
might just see if I can hack the driver into shape.)

Once configured, Gimp even understands pressure (and possibly slant, too,
but I've not tried that).

Mine (MTE-450A) doesn't handle tilt/slant; however, it seems that Gimp does.
Pressure's fine, if a little tricky to get used to (perhaps I should play
with the pressure curve settings).

The tablet required a few tweaks to the xorg.conf, but they're pretty well
documented. The only thing people seem not to be able to sort out is
constraining & scaling the tablet to a single window - it's full screen or
nothing.

Not quite full-screen or nothing, given that I've had to constrain it to part
of the available display area (2560×1024), so I've told it to use the
left-hand 1638×1024, which matches the tablet's aspect ratio (which is 16:10)
while retaining use of the whole of the drawing surface. Here's what I put in
a file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy:

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
deviceinfo version="0.2"
 <device> <!-- graphics tablet --
  <match key="input.x11_driver" contains="wacom"
   <match key="input.x11_options.Type" contains="stylus"
    <merge key="input.x11_options.TPCButton" type="string">on</merge
    <merge key="input.x11_options.Threshold" type="string">1</merge
    <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickForce" type="string">1</merge
    <merge key="input.x11_options.BottomX" type="string">23062</merge
      <!-- full height, but clipped at ~1638px --
   </match
  </match
  <match key="input.x11_driver" contains="wacom"
   <match key="input.x11_options.Type" contains="eraser"
    <!-- copied from above --
    <merge key="input.x11_options.TPCButton" type="string">on</merge
    <merge key="input.x11_options.Threshold" type="string">1</merge
    <merge key="input.x11_options.ClickForce" type="string">1</merge
    <merge key="input.x11_options.BottomX" type="string">23062</merge
      <!-- full height, but clipped at ~1638px --
   </match
  </match
 </device
/deviceinfo

On Oct 31, 6:46 pm, Darren Salt <n... at (no spam) youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid
wrote:
I demand that Chris Davies may or may not have written...
[snip]
The tablet required a few tweaks to the xorg.conf, but they're pretty
well documented. The only thing people seem not to be able to sort out is
constraining & scaling the tablet to a single window - it's full screen
or nothing.
Not quite full-screen or nothing, given that I've had to constrain it to
part of the available display area (2560×1024), so I've told it to use
the left-hand 1638×1024, which matches the tablet's aspect ratio (which
is 16:10) while retaining use of the whole of the drawing surface. Here's
what I put in a file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy:
?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?
deviceinfo version="0.2"
[snip XML]

On my Slack system /etc/pal/fdi/policy is a directory. What is the
file name for the above?