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Will
Asked: 2010-09-10 12:12:44 +0800 CST

How do I get the wacom zoom wheel working?

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I'm trying to get the zoom wheel on my wacom bamboo to work. Though i have very little idea of how to do so. I tried using xinputwacom (i think) however it moaned it was missing something. Is there anyway of running wacom-tools on 10.04?

A bit more reading here on wacom-tools http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/09/wacom-support-in-linux.html

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    What you're going to want to be looking into is a command called xsetwacom

    I think this is included in default repositories in Ubuntu lucid/maverick.

    AbsWUp and AbsWDn correspond to "up" and "down" scrolling on the touch-ring.

    Your command is going to be something like:

    xsetwacom set "Wacom Bamboo pad" AbsWUp "key +" (setting scroll-up to "+" key to zoom in.)

    However, they've changed around the way commands are set a little bit in the newest release of xsetwacom. I'm not sure precisely how to phrase this command to get it to work in Ubuntu 10.04 +.

    You can get help for this at the linuxwacom project mailing list: lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-discuss

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  2. Doesn't look like wacom-tools is supported under 10.04. Linux.com did just post a walkthrough of getting the wacom bamboo working with 10.04. link text

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