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!