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injiniero

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Registered: 2022-04-26

Posts: 34

How to set wacom area in Wayland and GNome

Hi.
I have a wacom tablet Intuos S bluetooth and in a Xorg session I was able to set the tablet area with xsetwacom that way:

xsetwacom --set "Wacom Intuos BT S Pen stylus" area 3800 0 11400 4750

But now I'm forced to switch to Wayland in GNome 49 and xsetwacom is no longer valid.
After searching for a solution I found gsetwacom which is a wrapper for gsettings in GNome but setting the area for the tablet doesn't work as expected.

I tried the command:

gsetwacom tablet 056a:0377 set-area 0.25 0.25 0.75 0.75

This is the same as:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.tablet:/056a:0377/ area "[0.25, 0.25, 0.75, 0.75]"

But none of them works. The usable area of the tablet is the whole area and not the one I specified.

One thing that strikes me is that in both xsetwacom and the libinput output, the area is specified on "Wacom Intuos BT S Pen", but in gsettings I have to specify the area on the tablet and not on the pen ¿?

Any clue?

This is the output for

sudo libinput --list-devices

Device:                  Wacom Intuos BT S Pen
Kernel:                  /dev/input/event21
Id:                      bluetooth:056a:0377
Group:                   7
Seat:                    seat0, default
Size:                    152x95mm
Capabilities:            tablet 
Tap-to-click:            n/a
Tap-and-drag:            n/a
Tap button map:          n/a
Tap drag lock:           n/a
Left-handed:             n/a
Nat.scrolling:           n/a
Middle emulation:        n/a
Calibration:             n/a
Scroll methods:          none
Scroll button:           n/a
Scroll button lock:      n/a
Click methods:           none
Clickfinger button map:  n/a
Disable-w-typing:        n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles:          none
Rotation:                n/a
Area rectangle:          (0.00, 0.00) - (1.00, 1.00)

Device:                  Wacom Intuos BT S Pad
Kernel:                  /dev/input/event22
Id:                      bluetooth:056a:0377
Group:                   7
Seat:                    seat0, default
Capabilities:            tablet-pad
Tap-to-click:            n/a
Tap-and-drag:            n/a
Tap button map:          n/a
Tap drag lock:           n/a
Left-handed:             n/a
Nat.scrolling:           n/a
Middle emulation:        n/a
Calibration:             n/a
Scroll methods:          none
Scroll button:           n/a
Scroll button lock:      n/a
Click methods:           none
Clickfinger button map:  n/a
Disable-w-typing:        n/a
Disable-w-trackpointing: n/a
Accel profiles:          n/a
Rotation:                n/a
Area rectangle:          n/a
Pad:
    Rings:   0
    Strips:  0
    Dials:   0
    Buttons: 4
    Mode groups: 1
        Group 0:
            Modes: 1
            Buttons: 0, 1, 2, 3

Thank you

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