I’m running Mint 15 on a Dell Inspiron 1501. My Wacom Bamboo Pen tablet just worked when I plugged it in. However, I need to set it for lefthanded use. I cannot find any help that I am able to understand about how to acheive this. I’d really appreciate a baby steps walkthrough for this process. Thanks in advice.
Hi Richard
Do you have the wacom utility installed ?
Come to think of it I’m sure it’s installed by default , but I can’t remember how to access it I’m not at a Linux machine at present
You might find something useful here http://peppermintos.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=5128
Graeme
Can you describe the problem ?
is it button assignment ?
is there not a wacom/tablet utility in system tools ?
What’s the output from:
xinput list
If I’m understanding this correctly http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=137161 it seems the Mint devs disabled the Wacom Utility in 14 but I’m not sure if it’s been re-enabled
Graeme
I can’t see any way to configure the tablet. The basic functions are there - but I can’t change anything - like right or left-hand use.
There is nothing in system tools. I checked to see that the wacom packages were installed - they are - but I don’t know how to access them.
Erm … waiting for you to answer my questions ???
and have you tried installing this:
https://launchpad.net/~hughescih/+archive/ppa/+files/wacom-utility_1.21-3_all.deb
?
Can you describe the problem ? In Mint 15 Cinnamon (64) I can find no way to alter settings on a Wacom tablet. The tablet worked immediately on being plugged in, but I’d like to set it for left-handed use, as can be simply done in Win7 on my other machine
is it button assignment ? I haven’t got that far yet. It’s more about finding out how to make such assignments.
is there not a wacom/tablet utility in system tools ? No, tho there was in earlier Mint versions.
What’s the output from:
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xinput list
Can you describe the problem ?
is it button assignment ?
is there not a wacom/tablet utility in system tools ?
What’s the output from:
Code: [Select]
xinput list
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ lspci |grep VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI RS482M [Mobility Radeon Xpress 200]
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $
Thanks for your time & effort!
Was that “xinput list” command run whilst the wacom tablet was attached ?
What I’m asking is - What makes a tablet “left handed”, is it the button assignment ?
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Bamboo Connect Finger touch id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Bamboo Connect Finger pad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Bamboo Connect Pen stylus id=15 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Bamboo Connect Pen eraser id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=14 [slave keyboard (3)]
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $
There is a parameter ‘Rotate’ that determines L/H - R/H . When the parameter is ‘Half’ the tablet is effectively rotated through 180 deg so it can be sat on left of keyboard with the USB socket facing in, as opposed to on right with socket facing in.
Have you tried opening a terminal and running
xsetwacom set stylus rotate HALF
and
xsetwacom set eraser rotate HALF
?
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ xsetwacom set stylus rotate HALF
Cannot find device ‘stylus’.
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ xsetwacom set eraser rotate HALF
Cannot find device ‘eraser’.
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $
Just tried that, results above:
What’s the output from:
xsetwacom list devices
Would this be of any use to you http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=117690&start=20&hilit=wacom
Nice find SeZo 
@ rlucas
Also send the output from:
ls -a /usr/share/applications | grep wacom
along with the output from:
xsetwacom list devices
–
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ ls -a /usr/share/applications | grep wacom
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $ xsetwacom list devices
Wacom Bamboo Connect Pen stylus id: 10 type: STYLUS
Wacom Bamboo Connect Pen eraser id: 11 type: ERASER
Wacom Bamboo Connect Finger touch id: 15 type: TOUCH
Wacom Bamboo Connect Finger pad id: 16 type: PAD
rlucas@rlucas-Inspiron-1501 ~ $
I’d found the advice referred to above, but I’m not sure what I need to do to follow it I entered sudo gedit gnome-wacom-panel.desktop and arrived at a blank gedit screen. How do I proceed from there? Sorry to be so dense!
I got a reply from the linuxmint forum that sorted the issue : http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=137945&p=735900#p735900
Thank you for your time and effort!
Glad to hear you got it sorted
And thanks for confirming I was on the right track, and just needed the device name correcting.
Yes, it was about getting the device name right. But ( there’s always a but) the system isn’t retaining the set up. If it hibernates, it reverts to the standard setting. Any clue how to proceed with that?