I use a Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch with Skritter to practice Chinese characters, and would strongly recommend this combination for anyone studying Chinese or Japanese.
However, I find that I never use the tablet’s touch functionality, and that it’s actually quite annoying as I keep accidentally touching it and causing various problems.
To disable the touch functionality in Windows or Mac is very easy as there’s a settings GUI included with the drivers. On Linux, you need to get terminal open. The first command you want is:
xsetwacom --list devices
This will produce a list of Wacom devices currently detected, so you can get the ID for the touch functionality. The list will look something like this:
Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Pen eraser id: 9 type: ERASER
Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus id: 10 type: STYLUS
Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Finger pad id: 11 type: PAD
Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Finger touch id: 12 type: TOUCH
The one you want is “type: TOUCH”. In my case the ID is 12. Then type the following command to switch off touch:
xsetwacom set 12 touch off
Replace the ID 12 with whatever ID number you get from your list of devices.
If you want to switch touch back on again, the command is simply:
xsetwacom set 12 touch on
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[...] at all.This will probably improve in future, but currently touch is so annoying that I actually turned it off (I got sick of accidentally clicking things whenever I leaned on the tablet).PriceThe Pen & [...]
Thank for the tutorial, i’ve writen about it on my blog using Bahasa. Once again, thank a lot
http://www.panduaji.net/2012/07/mematikan-touch-wacom-di-ubuntu.html
No problem!
A small script using the above method.
#Turn off touch.
id=`xsetwacom –list devices|grep TOUCH|cut -c 40-41`
echo $id
xsetwacom set $id touch off
#Turn on touch.
id=`xsetwacom –list devices|grep TOUCH|cut -c 40-41`
echo $id
xsetwacom set $id touch on
Check that the cut input fits your distro.
That looks really useful, thanks for sharing it!
Update:
To get it working on Linux Mint 14, I used:
#Turn off touch.id=`xsetwacom --list devices|grep TOUCH|cut -c 40-42`
echo $id
xsetwacom set $id touch off
Thanks this helped a lot. But is there a way to make it permanent? Everytime I switch off the PC or the Tablet after turning on I have to type this codes again.
Thanks one more time
You could set up the script given above to run at startup. How to do that varies by distro, but there will definitely be guides if you Google for it.