I can’t set the button options for my wacom intuos 5 under GNOME 3.14 (I’m using tumbleweed) in the settings dialogue. The options are not visible.
My wacom works perfectly in ms windows 7.
I’ve searched eveywhere for information to help, but nothing. The KCM control in KDE works, but I want to use GNOME not KDE.
Hoping someone might know the score. I tried downloading the latest release from the wacom project on sourceforge but it would not compile, says I have a "non-standard prefix’
If I can’t get this to work with openSUSE, I’ll have to change to Fedora, where I’ve seen with a colleaugue that it does work in that distro. GNOME has updated its wacom drivers since GNOME 3.10
no one using a wacom intuos 5 touch S under GNOME 3.14?
I’ve updated all available drivers and libs via the repos, but still the options for assigning the buttons are not showing in the Wacom part of the control center…
The pen and all its options work perfectly in Windows and under the KCM wacom module in KDE, so I’m assuming it’s some problem in the GNOME set up.
I’d be very grateful if someone could help.
thanks in advance…
no one helped, but inadvertently maybe, yes.
since I did the update today which included changing to kernel 3.18 and using the latest NVIDIA graphic drivers (from NVIDIA’s site) the options are available, and its looking just like windows or Fedora… finally all the button functionality has come to linux, including the overview like WACOM’s own drivers. Good work from the GNOME developer who achieved it. I consider this closed.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 14:46:01 +0000, johnoshock wrote:
> no one helped, but inadvertently maybe, yes.
> since I did the update today which included changing to kernel 3.18 and
> using the latest NVIDIA graphic drivers (from NVIDIA’s site) the options
> are available, and its looking just like windows or Fedora… finally all
> the button functionality has come to linux, including the overview like
> WACOM’s own drivers. Good work from the GNOME developer who achieved it.
> I consider this closed.
Glad to hear you got this sorted out - over the holidays, I had other
commitments, but I use an Intuos 4 here, and I can say that I’ve not seen
this issue with that version - but the 4 is quite a different tablet, and
I expect that the linux-wacom project had a little catching up to do to
get the 5’s support where it now is. 
Jim
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Thanks, but it was quite frustrating at the time. However, I’m relieved I don’t have to considering changing anything. I like openSUSE in particular because of Yast, zypper and Tumbleweed… been using it for a year now and I don’t think any other distro offers the same stability or flexibility while being on the bleeding edge of technology. I’m looking forward to trying the next plasma 5 when things iron out a bit… but remaining productive is important to me so I don’t want too many risks… openSUSE is great in this respect. Cheers, John.