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Asked: 2014-06-25 04:08:08 +0800 CST

Disable touch of the tablet in Ubuntu Unity 14.04

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I've searched beforehand and the only suggestion I've found is this one but it doesn't work, at least not on my system (Ubuntu Unity 14.04 x64).

I need to disable the touch on my WACOM Bamboo Manga CTH-470 tablet so only the pen tip and eraser are recognized and not my hand when I accidentally touch it.

I know of this temporary solution:

xsetwacom --list

to list the output of the tablet (example)

inoki@innerdistance-Satellite-L650:~$ xsetwacom --list Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus id: 11 type: STYLUS
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger touch id: 12 type: TOUCH
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen eraser id: 16 type: ERASER
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger pad id: 17 type: PAD

then

xsetwacom --set # touch off

Using

inoki@innerdistance-Satellite-L650:~$ xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -d ' ' -f 8 TOUCH inoki@innerdistance-Satellite-L650:~$

has shown only the "TOUCH" word exactly as above.

I need to make it permanent, so I don't have to insert the command every time I want to work with my tablet.

14.04

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    in my case worked this: 

    xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom Intuos Pro M (WL) Finger touch' gesture off

    test

    xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger touch' gesture off
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  2. Rather than rely on fixed character positions and cut, you could use sed instead, like this:

    xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | sed -r "s/.*id: *([0-9]*).*/\1/"` touch off
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  3. First off, you still need to add the new command to your autostart configuration so that it's disabled to start with:

    xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -c 40-42` touch off

    Then try putting the following into a new file: /etc/pm/power.d/99_touchdisable:

    #!/bin/bash

ac_power ()
{
    xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -c 40-42` touch off
}

battery_power ()
{
    xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -c 40-42` touch off
}

    Then run sudo chmod 755 /etc/pm/power.d/99_touchdisable

    Restart your tablet and try unplugging/plugging in your tablet.

    If it doesn't work, check to see if you have different power profiles enabled. If it still isn't working, run sudo apt-get install pm-utils and try running sudo pm-powersave <true/false> to get it to run the script.

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