I do not have a question, although would welcome comments from other wacom users. These are just some notes on migrating a wacom setup from an older Slackware to 14.2 that might be useful to others.
My daughter is an artist, I set her up with a wacom tablet a few years ago under Slackware 13.37 I think. That has since been upgraded to 14.0 and part way to 14.1 following -current (but we never fully updated the machine for whatever reasons).
We wrote a few scripts using the xsetwacom utility to provide a few variations on runtime environment, button and tool options to suit her needs. She has learned to configure The Gimp along the way to provide her perfect platform. Other than a hard drive and video card upgrade it has been spinning like a top!
I am now setting up a Slackware 14.2 fresh install on a separate partition... the basic setup works great but her wacom environments did not work...
The xsetwacom scripts failed to find the device, although the kernel module loaded and basic pointer functions worked. It had been a while since I last looked at those scripts, so man xsetwacom!
This turned out to be due to a change in the device names reported by the kernel module. The old devices were all of the form:
Code:
Wacom Intuos4 4x6 pad
But the module in 14.2 reports...
Code:
xwacomset list devices
Wacom Intuos4 4x6 Pad pad
Wacom Intuos4 4x6 Pen stylus
Wacom Intuos4 4x6 Pen eraser
Wacom Intuos4 4x6 Pen cursor
So we updated the existing scripts to use the new names and they appear to work fine (although I have not tested all options 100% yet)
Once that was sorted, The Gimp required some basic setup.
Quick start, open a test image, then under Edit > Preferences > Input devices... for each wacom device, set...
Code:
Mode: Screen
Axes: Pressure
Save
And in each tool options dialog, set Dynamics: Pressure opacity (or other choice)
At this point you can test the response and adjust the curves to suit - clicking Save each time
No magic there, just be sure to set them all and look online for some Gimp hints, it is well travelled ground, and this was a good refresher!
