I have a wacom intuous 5 touch. I can use it fine in my applications, but I would really like to get to the gui so I can edit it’s profile. I have installed kcm_tablet.i586. Using xsetwacom and xinput --list, my tablet is detected. At one point I had an error message saying that I needed to start the wacom daemon, but after restarting the kcm says no tablet detected. So how do I start the wacom daemon or at least see if it’s running. I checked the system services in YaST but I did not see a wacom daemon, if that indeed is where it would be found.
I am on opensuse 12.2, intel i7, with nvidia gtx 560.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> I have a wacom intuous 5 touch. I can use it fine in my applications,
> but I would really like to get to the gui so I can edit it’s profile. I
> have installed kcm_tablet.i586. Using xsetwacom and xinput --list, my
> tablet is detected. At one point I had an error message saying that I
> needed to start the wacom daemon, but after restarting the kcm says no
> tablet detected. So how do I start the wacom daemon or at least see if
> it’s running. I checked the system services in YaST but I did not see a
> wacom daemon, if that indeed is where it would be found.
>
> I am on opensuse 12.2, intel i7, with nvidia gtx 560.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
It sounds like you’re using KDE - is that correct?
I have an Intuos4 myself, but I use GNOME - the configuration in GNOME is
in the “system settings”. When I get home this evening, I can look and
see where the analogue is in KDE if I have a few minutes.
When the kcm_tablet is installed/working you should find it in the systems settings → input devices → graphics-tablet (or similar, tried to translate this to english).
You can also activate the symbol in the systray when you right click there and tick it under additional entries.
To have it working you might need the xf-86-input-wacom and the libwacom libraries.
Here only the 1.3.x versions are functional, the 1.2.5 from the official repositories does not show any tablet. I’m using the 1.3.7 from user:munix (at your own risk).
I have not been able to find the 1.3.7 version. Only for builds, but I am not that advanced. I gave it a go and have all the necessary dependencies except for KDE5, which I can’t find either, or don’t trust it. I always got an error “kde_add_plugin” not recognized. Used cmake and tried to follow the readme instructions as best as possible but became a nightmare. I can use and view all the settings in the terminal for using my tablet, xsetwacom, but I would rather not. Everything seems to work in the terminal and my tablet is recognized just can’t get the front end for it to work. If there are any more ideas they would be greatful.
just type wacom after opening activities. No need to go into “settings”
Hoping YaST related tools also show up outside in Shell activities. If i type “services” in activities i should be seeing runlevel editor.
Go to opensuse.org, follow “Get it”, search for kcm_tablet and look under “show unstable packages” for your distro. Either use one-click-install or download the file or add the repo using your preferred method.