On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 10:33:13AM -0500, Chris Bagwell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Cedric Sodhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 08:59:55AM -0500, Chris Bagwell wrote: > > Isn't it possible to simply offer *absolutely no* properties through > > xinput cli (except the few generic ones) and have it all through > > xsetwacom (not until xsetwacom can properly set TabletPCButton, of > > course :p) - that would perhaps be more consistent and clear. > > The opposite could certainly be true but not what you suggest. I > believe "properties" were created so that drivers could stop implement > per driver programs to set per driver internal variables and move to a > generic approach were you can query supported properties and set them > generically; either using X provided functions or the xinput command > which is just a wrapper for those generic functions.
That's correct. before properties it was very tricky to get device-specific run-time configurations into the devices (possible, but painful, see old linuxwacom code) and it was by no means generic enough. Properties are not without their issues but they've certainly eased run-time configuration by a factor. > That is a feature that won't be going away. But 2 ways to do same > thing is confusing to me as well. So I lean towards removing logic > from xsetwacom where it overlaps. think of it as terminal vs desktop environment. you can ls/cp/rm files or you can view/drag/etc. them in your GUI. Both do the same thing on the same underlying data but they neither superseed nor replace each other. xinput and xsetwacom are similar in that regard. Cheers, Peter > > > > Not that it would be a big problem, whatsoever (apart from that > > xsetwacom can't affect that settings, which probabaly is a bug, but I'll > > verify it with current GIT before calling it such) > > > > Thanks. > > > > > >> > >> Agree it would be nice to include a xsetwacom to X properties > >> conversion table in man pages; similar to how "man synaptics" does it. > >> > >> Patches welcome (since this is on the developers list)! > >> > >> Chris > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Cedric Sodhi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Well, this is interesting. I found the solution which is rather easy, > >> > yet not all that obvious to find. > >> > > >> > Apparently xinput (cli tool) offers a setting "Wacom Hover Click" which > >> > turns the side button on. > >> > > >> > Of course that yields the question why that setting is not covered by > >> > xsetwacom. Is it that some settings can only be set by xinput cli and > >> > others only by xsetwacon cli? Sounds a little strange to me - I would > >> > rather expect all settings to be handled by xsetwacom (I would even > >> > prefer if all settings were handled by xinput). > >> > > >> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 11:52:59AM +0100, Cedric Sodhi wrote: > >> >> Hello, the device is a 056a:0090 n USB. I'm 99.99% certain that the > >> >> button on the side of my stylus used to work, but it no longer does. GPM > >> >> and the event interface still respond to the button (GPM pastes, when I > >> >> press it, which means it is reported as the right button), but there is > >> >> no response to it in X. I use 0.11.1 - I'm just puzzled because it used > >> >> to work (afaicr - I haven't been using that pc for long). > >> >> > >> >> I don't think I've updated xf86-input-wacom since it used to work. I'm > >> >> actually positive I did not. > >> >> > >> >> Any idea how to find out what's wrong? xsetwacom --get ... all returns > >> >> > >> >> Button requires exactly 1 values > >> >> > >> >> Which I think refers to the click with the pen, not the button. > >> >> > >> >> Thanks for your help, > >> >> Cedric > >> >> > >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> >> RSA® Conference 2012 > >> >> Save $700 by Nov 18 > >> >> Register now! > >> >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > >> >> _______________________________________________ > >> >> Linuxwacom-devel mailing list > >> >> [email protected] > >> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel > >> > > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > RSA® Conference 2012 > >> > Save $700 by Nov 18 > >> > Register now! > >> > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Linuxwacom-devel mailing list > >> > [email protected] > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel > >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > RSA® Conference 2012 > Save $700 by Nov 18 > Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 > _______________________________________________ > Linuxwacom-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
