wacom-utils

Utilities that intends making use of Wacom Intuos BT easier on Linux.

Current features:

• Click and drag to select an area on screen, which the Wacom tablet then gets mapped to

Contents

• Usage
  • Use WU
  • Build WU
• Releases
  • Version 1.0

Usage

Building wu (wacom-utils)

Build requirements:

• cmake
• libX11-devel (fedora), libx11-dev (debian)
• C++ compiler that supports at least c++20

  # Configure dependencies

  # On Fedora (rpm)
  sudo dnf install libX11-dev

  # On Debian (Ubuntu etc)
  sudo apt-get install libx11-dev

Wacom Utils may add additional dependencies, but 3rd party deps are always a nightmarish hell hole. But it would be nice to have some more UI stuff, but WU can probably get away with using X11 directly.

  # Build using Ninja
  git clone https://github.com/theIDinside/wacom-utils
  cd wacom-utils
  mkdir build && cd build
  cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  cmake --build .

  # Build using standard CMake
  git clone https://github.com/theIDinside/wacom-utils && cd wacom-utils
  mkdir build && cd build
  cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  cmake --build .

Use WU

After you've built WU go to the build directory (called $PATH_TO_BUILD_DIR in these docs) and execute:

  $PATH_TO_BUILD_DIR/bin/wu

Of if you know the exact ID of your wacom device you can do

  $PATH_TO_BUILD_DIR/bin/wu "IdOrDeviceName"

Then do what wu tells you to do.

Releases

Version 1.0

Version 1.0 adds the functionality of clicking & dragging between two points on the screen, and mapping the wacom to this area specifically.

Version 1.0 does not contain a user interface nor does it show where you are currently dragging/mapping. This will come in future releases.

Some of the source code might look over engineered (because they are). But I'm thinking in the future we'd probably want wacom-utils to run as a service. At least there should definitely be a UI, at which point we probably want this design.