Bug#689868: gnome-control-center: wacom button assignments broken
Alexander Wagner
aw-lists at stellarcom.org
Sun Oct 7 12:52:18 UTC 2012
Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:3.4.2-2.1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
certain wacom tablets offer a number of hardware buttons for common shortcuts.
In the past I had to assign those buttons using xsetwacom within a short shell
script. Now those settings went to "gnome-control-center wacom" and the "map
buttons" function. I therefore tried to repeat my setup from the past from
there:
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#!/bin/bash
DEVICE="Wacom Intuos4 6x9"
ERASER="$DEVICE eraser"
CURSOR="$DEVICE cursor"
PAD="$DEVICE pad"
xsetwacom set "$ERASER" Rotate half
xsetwacom set "$CURSOR" Rotate half
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Rotate half
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 2 "key ctrl s"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 3 "key alt"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 4 "key ctrl"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 5 "key shift"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 6 "key x"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 7 "key p"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 8 "key c"
xsetwacom set "$PAD" Button 9 "key ctrl y"
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First I found, that currently it is NOT possible to map bare modifiers like
CTRL, SHIFT and ALT, which is, however, in this context very sensible and
useful. The control as such just does not accept the input of ALT without any
keystroke, at least I was not able to fiddle out how I should do this. I would
treat this as a more critical bug as you'll want to have some of these keys if
you're working with the tablet alone (without a keyboard).
Secondly, given that I use the tablet in left handed orientation, I'm not sure
about the numbering scheme used for the buttons. This is just an inconvenience,
but for improvement of the GUI one should make this assignment clear (note that
xsetwacom has the very same issue.)
Anyway, to fiddle it out I just assigned the numbers 1-8 to them, to check in
vi what I will get. However, I just found that no buttons at all get assigned
to the tablet! I can assign whatever I want, but the tablet just doesn't send
any of them back. This is the very reason for this bug report. Though
everything seems to be recognized as it should (the tablet is reported
properly, the syslog is clear of any errors), even orientation switching works
fine, the buttons seem to be broken. I may note that buttons include here the
centre keyring button meant for mode switching as well as the ring itself. It
seems I get "almost" no events.
Note: I refer to sending back keystrokes, I'm aware that at the moment gnome-
control-centre can not set the OLEDs of the intuos4.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii accountsservice 0.6.21-6
ii apg 2.2.3.dfsg.1-2
ii desktop-file-utils 0.20-0.1
ii gnome-control-center-data 1:3.4.2-2.1
ii gnome-desktop3-data 3.4.2-1
ii gnome-icon-theme 3.4.0-2
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.4.0-2
ii gnome-menus 3.4.2-3
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-5
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.4.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.12.2-2
ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2
ii libcanberra-gtk3-0 0.28-5
ii libcanberra0 0.28-5
ii libcheese-gtk21 3.4.2-2
ii libcheese3 3.4.2-2
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.10.8-2
ii libcogl-pango0 1.10.2-6
ii libcogl9 1.10.2-6
ii libcolord1 0.1.21-1
ii libcomerr2 1.42.5-1
ii libcups2 1.5.3-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.6.0-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.100-1
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7
ii libgcrypt11 1.5.0-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1
ii libgnome-bluetooth10 3.4.2-1
ii libgnome-desktop-3-2 3.4.2-1
ii libgnome-menu-3-0 3.4.2-3
ii libgnomekbd7 3.4.0.2-1
ii libgnutls26 2.12.20-1
ii libgoa-1.0-0 3.4.2-1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.4.2-3
ii libgtop2-7 2.28.4-3
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 0.14.2-1
ii libk5crypto3 1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii libkrb5-3 1.10.1+dfsg-2
ii libnm-glib4 0.9.4.0-6
ii libnm-gtk0 0.9.4.1-2
ii libnm-util2 0.9.4.0-6
ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1
ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-1
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 2.0-6
ii libpulse0 2.0-6
ii libsocialweb-client2 0.25.20-2
ii libupower-glib1 0.9.17-1
ii libwacom2 0.5-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.3-2
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.3-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.1-2
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0-4
ii libxi6 2:1.6.1-1
ii libxklavier16 5.2.1-1
ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-5
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.1.2-1
ii gnome-online-accounts 3.4.2-1
ii gnome-session 3.4.2.1-2
ii gnome-user-guide 3.4.2-1+build1
ii iso-codes 3.38-1
ii mesa-utils 8.0.1-2+b3
ii mousetweaks 3.4.2-1
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2
Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii gnome-screensaver 3.4.1-1
ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio 0.10.31-3
ii libcanberra-gtk-module 0.28-5
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7~3
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