GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 752039
Unable to disable "touch" on a "pen & touch" wacom device
Last modified: 2021-06-09 16:27:53 UTC
Current configuration dialog for Wacom Tablets does not have an option to disable the "touch" part of a "pen & touch" device; I tried to disable it using a custom "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/55-local-wacom.conf" file, but it was not working. I discovered that I had to enter "dconf-editor" and disable "gsdwacom" in "org > gnome > settings-daemon > plugins".
Yes, please offer disabling/enabling touch for tablet. On the commandline one can do xsetwacom set <id> touch off and xsetwacom set <id> touch on but the non-technical or normal user of GNOME would want to do that via Control Center. Please have this setting be persistent so that plugging out and plugging in of a tablet of the same USB ID or restarting of GNOME will result into the same setting. The visual implementation can be a switch, comparable to the tablet on the left-hand side switch.
See also https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxwacom/feature-requests/64/
On Fedora 22 / Gnome 3.16, the touch part of my "pen & touch" device is handled as a "touchpad", and can be disabled from the "Mouse & Touchpad" entry in the settings.
On Ubuntu 15.10 / GNOME 3.16 it is not unfortunately. I use a https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxwacom/bugs/291/ (see comments below on that page)
Eduardo, yes, touchpad on your laptop and touchpad on your tablet should not get mixed up.
@Pander: I do not own a laptop, something is confusing the tablet with a touchpad, even if it is attached to a desktop computer.
@Eduardo, that is even worse. Hope someone can tell figure out what the problem is or ask you to gather certain debug info to be able to find the cause of it.
Commands for ~/.bash_aliases to disable and enable touch on only the tablet are: alias touch-off="xsetwacom set `xsetwacom list|grep -i touch|awk -F 'id: ' '{print $2}'|awk '{print $1}'` touch off" alias touch-on="xsetwacom set `xsetwacom list|grep -i touch|awk -F 'id: ' '{print $2}'|awk '{print $1}'` touch on" You could even make a script that toggles it by using: xsetwacom get `xsetwacom list|grep -i touch|awk -F 'id: ' '{print $2}'|awk '{print $1}'` touch which will result in 'on' or 'off'.
Created attachment 328862 [details] Mockup
What is the current status (with regard to that bugzilla is replaced with github)?
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org. As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately quite limited so not every ticket can get handled). If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent and supported software version, then please follow https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines and create a new bug report at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/ Thank you for your understanding and your help.