GfxTablet and libinput

[Lucki]

Using libinput and gfxtablet at the same time don’t work. Libinput tries to use networktablet and fails doing so. The cursor doesn’t move and clicking does nothing.
/var/log/Xorg.1.log complains about that it can’t handle the tablet device because of an internal bug.

To solve this you need to add a configuration file, per example 30-gfxtablet.conf, to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with the following:

Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
       MatchIsTablet "on"
       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
       Driver "evdev"
EndSection

[Lucki]

Don’t forget to restart XOrg after adding the configuration file.

[parkerlreed]

Is there no way to do this without evdev installed? I’ve been trying to keep everything to libinput.

[Lucki]

@parkerlreed I’m sorry but you’re wrong here. I’m not a developer. Please make a new topic (search before) with your feature request.

[orbitallogic]

i’m having trouble… i got this working for a moment, then on reboot it stopped working. and i’m not sure why… here is my xorg.0.log file:

0_1504564717733_Xorg.0.log

i had to create the xorg.conf file mentioned above and it worked. but when i rebooted the computer, the file was just gone, and a xorg.conf.MMDDYYYY file was put in its place… there are now three of them… each for a different day… what’s going on? i think xorg.conf is deprecated…

[Lucki]

@orbitallogic I haven’t altered xorg.conf. Make a new file in the xorg.conf.d folder https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xorg#Using_.conf_files

lucki@Archlinux ~ % cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-gfxtablet.conf 
Section "InputClass"
	Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
	MatchIsTablet "on"
	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
	Driver "evdev"
EndSection

[leastfixedpoint]

The changes to the code I made in pull request 95 allow it to work with libinput, if that’s useful to you at all.

[Lucki]

@leastfixedpoint Seems to work without the configuration file after a quick little test. Nice!

[parkerlreed]

@leastfixedpoint Cheers!