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theGeekyLad

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From: San Jose, California

Registered: 2018-10-06

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[GNOME 47] Wacom tablet buttons are always left-mouse-button

Hello folks, I recently upgraded my system to GNOME 47 (always been on Wayland). My Wacom CTC-6110WL is correctly detected just as before and I'm using OpenTabletDriver v0.6.5.1 with Xournal++ v1.2.5 (all updated to latest). Unfortunately, the stylus buttons are always mapped to left-mouse-button despite having overriden them in OpenTabletDriver.

The libinput logs show that the buttons are being correctly detected as BTN_STYLUS and BTN_STYLUS2:

$ libinput debug-events
...
event260  TABLET_TOOL_AXIS         34 +4.289s		30.18*/16.21*	tilt: 29.15*/-23.12	pressure: 0.00
 event260  TABLET_TOOL_BUTTON          +4.289s	331 (BTN_STYLUS) pressed, seat count: 1
...
 event260  TABLET_TOOL_BUTTON          +4.452s	331 (BTN_STYLUS) released, seat count: 0
 event260  TABLET_TOOL_AXIS            +4.457s		30.24*/16.13*	tilt: 27.14/-26.13	pressure: 0.00
...
event260  TABLET_TOOL_AXIS         46 +14.228s		29.86*/16.44*	tilt: 34.18/-30.16	pressure: 0.00
 event260  TABLET_TOOL_BUTTON          +14.228s	332 (BTN_STYLUS2) pressed, seat count: 1
...
 event260  TABLET_TOOL_BUTTON          +14.429s	332 (BTN_STYLUS2) released, seat count: 0
 event260  TABLET_TOOL_AXIS            +14.433s		29.91*/16.43*	tilt: 32.17*/-30.16	pressure: 0.00
...

Here's my OpenTabletDriver config:
https://imgur.com/a/C3hn5x4

Thought it could be an OpenTabletConfig bug but I see someone already opened an issue and the team pointed out that it's probably related to GNOME:
https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/Ope … ssues/3798

I also tried upgrading from mutter to mutter-performance:

$ sudo pacman -Qs mutter
local/mutter-performance 1:47.4-1 (gnome)
    A window manager for GNOME | Attempts to improve performances with non-upstreamed merge-requests and frequent stable branch resync
local/mutter-performance-debug 1:47.4-1
    Detached debugging symbols for mutter-performance

I also found a related bug on FEdora 41 here but there's no update there:
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/graphics- … 1/24836/14

Does anyone else face the same problem? Really appreciate any help!

Last edited by theGeekyLad (2025-02-19 08:01:43)

SelfRef

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From: Poland

Registered: 2025-02-28

Posts: 1

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Re: [GNOME 47] Wacom tablet buttons are always left-mouse-button

I thought I'm getting crazy as my stylus lost button mappings, and it didn't happen before. Same problem for me - Wacom Intuos and BTN_STYLUS & BTN_STYLUS2 can only act as left click. I looked at gsettings and config is saved correctly. Resetting tablet config does nothing, so it's probably related with sending signals in Gnome itself. I don't use any other software related to tablet or mappings.

Last edited by SelfRef (2025-02-28 00:55:08)