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mke21

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Registered: 2014-07-19

Posts: 19

Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

Did anybody succeed to turn off Finger touch on the small Wacom Intuos Pro? I tried to follow the wiki, but I don't understand it.
When I do:

$ xsetwacom --list devices
Wacom Intuos Pro S Pen stylus   	id: 10	type: STYLUS    
Wacom Intuos Pro S Pad pad      	id: 11	type: PAD       
Wacom Intuos Pro S Pen eraser   	id: 16	type: ERASER    
Wacom Intuos Pro S Pen cursor   	id: 17	type: CURSOR

I don't seem to have a Touch device. Therefore

$ xsetwacom --set "Wacom Intuos Pro S Pad pad" touch off

doesn't do anything.

$ dmesg | grep -i wacom
[   11.686697] input: Wacom Intuos Pro S Pen as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/0003:056A:0314.0001/input/input20
[   11.686884] input: Wacom Intuos Pro S Pad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0/0003:056A:0314.0001/input/input22
[   11.687407] wacom 0003:056A:0314.0001: hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Device [Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos5 touch S] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input0
[   11.688074] input: Wacom Intuos Pro S Finger as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.1/0003:056A:0314.0002/input/input24
[   11.688237] wacom 0003:056A:0314.0002: hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Device [Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos5 touch S] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.1/input1
[   23.436579] wacom 0003:056A:0314.0002: wacom_set_report: ran out of retries (last error = -32)

seems to show that I do have a S Finger device.
I don't understand the last line, wacom_set_report ran out of retries.

So how do I turn off the touch? The tablet seems to work fine for the rest.

ewaller

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Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

Would you install evtest and run it as root?  When it asks for a device, you can kill it.  Or, if your device shows up, try selecting it.

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mke21

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Registered: 2014-07-19

Posts: 19

Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

Yup, can be found. It also starts spewing out messages when I touch the pad with my fingers. I get the following text before that:

Available devices:
/dev/input/event0:	AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
/dev/input/event1:	Lid Switch
/dev/input/event2:	Sleep Button
/dev/input/event3:	Power Button
/dev/input/event4:	PC Speaker
/dev/input/event5:	FocalTechPS/2 FocalTech FocalTech Touchpad
/dev/input/event6:	Video Bus
/dev/input/event7:	Video Bus
/dev/input/event8:	HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=3
/dev/input/event9:	HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=7
/dev/input/event10:	HDA Intel HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm=8
/dev/input/event11:	HDA Intel PCH Headphone
/dev/input/event12:	Asus WMI hotkeys
/dev/input/event13:	Wacom Intuos Pro S Pen
/dev/input/event14:	Wacom Intuos Pro S Pad
/dev/input/event15:	Wacom Intuos Pro S Finger
Select the device event number [0-15]: 15
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x56a product 0x314 version 0x110
Input device name: "Wacom Intuos Pro S Finger"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 325 (BTN_TOOL_FINGER)
    Event code 328 (BTN_TOOL_QUINTTAP)
    Event code 330 (BTN_TOUCH)
    Event code 333 (BTN_TOOL_DOUBLETAP)
    Event code 334 (BTN_TOOL_TRIPLETAP)
    Event code 335 (BTN_TOOL_QUADTAP)
  Event type 3 (EV_ABS)
    Event code 0 (ABS_X)
      Value   1239
      Min        0
      Max     4096
      Resolution      26
    Event code 1 (ABS_Y)
      Value   1777
      Min        0
      Max     4096
      Resolution      42
    Event code 47 (ABS_MT_SLOT)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max       15
    Event code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max     4096
    Event code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max     4096
    Event code 53 (ABS_MT_POSITION_X)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max     4096
      Fuzz       4
      Resolution      26
    Event code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max     4096
      Fuzz       4
      Resolution      42
    Event code 57 (ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID)
      Value      0
      Min        0
      Max    65535
Properties:
  Property type 0 (INPUT_PROP_POINTER)
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)

mke21

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Registered: 2014-07-19

Posts: 19

Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

So it seems it should be doable to turn of the Finger part. But I still don't know how to do that. Can anyone help this noviece?

TheChickenMan

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Registered: 2015-07-25

Posts: 354

Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

If you're using gnome there is a button which turns off the touchpad feature in the control panel. I think there is in xfce as well.

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mke21

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Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

Unfortunately I am using neither XFCE nor Gnome. You think it would be worthwhile to install one of those? I thought it should be ossible to get it working with the commandline, and I am hesitating to install a bulky desktopmanager. But if this is the only way, I'll try it.

TheChickenMan

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Registered: 2015-07-25

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Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

Unfortunately I am using neither XFCE nor Gnome. You think it would be worthwhile to install one of those? I thought it should be ossible to get it working with the commandline, and I am hesitating to install a bulky desktopmanager. But if this is the only way, I'll try it.

Well I looked again and it's really just a way of turning off all touch devices. This works well for me on my workstation and stops me from brushing the tablet accidently with my hand because I'm using a real mouse. The problem is that it will not differentiate between your tablet and your touchpad if you're using a laptop and wish to use that as a mouse. I have also found that there is an option (at least in xournal which I use a lot) to tell it not to accept finger touch events specifically from your tablet in the application. This is the method which I actually use most of the time as it works both on my laptop and workstation.

I guess I mentioned all of this because it's important to think about the different ways that there are to make something work for your own personal situation. It might be helpful to know why you're needing to block touch input. If you mentioned this earlier I must have missed it.

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mke21

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Registered: 2014-07-19

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Re: Turning off touch with Wacom Intuos Pro S?

Well, I certainly don't want to turn off the touchpad on my laptop. I would like to turn off the touch on the wacom tablet because it reacts sometimes on my touch while I want it to follow the pen.