I have my Wacom Bamboo tablet working fine under Fedora 14 but would like to switch it from right- to left-handed.
How can this be done?
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What do you mean by left-handed? You want applications on the right and shutdown on the left? – phunehehe Jan 06 '11 at 16:04
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I mean write on the tablet using my left hand with all the tablet buttons on the right-hand side (so they're not pressed accidentally). – Nick Pierpoint Jan 07 '11 at 11:36
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Use xsetwacom.
Basically, you'll want to list your current configuration, then re-configure the buttons to be the opposite way around, e.g. what button 1 did, button 4 should be (or whatever).
You could also try using xinput.
Something like:
$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Bamboo 2FG Finger pad id=11 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Wacom Bamboo 2FG Finger touch id=12 [slave pointer (2)]
$ xinput get-button-map "Wacom Bamboo 2FG Finger pad"
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
$ xinput set-button-map "Wacom Bamboo 2FG Finger pad" 3 2 1 4 5 6 7
Do you also need to remap the x and y axes?
Final thought: what happens if you go to System->Preferences->Mouse? Maybe changing it to left handed has some effect?
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Thanks for the above suggestion. It solved a slightly different problem for me:
I configured my regular mouse to be left-handed, and wanted to use the Wacom tablet right-handed. The problem was that the tablet now interpreted pen/touch clicks as 'right-clicks', following the mouse setting - thus displaying the context menus etc.
The following worked:
xinput set-button-map "Wacom Intuos PT S Finger touch" 3 2 1 4 5 6 7
xinput set-button-map "Wacom Intuos PT S Pen stylus" 3 1 2 4 5 6 7
Note: I had previously tried:
"xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos PT S Pen stylus" button 1 button 3"
-- which did NOT work in my set-up
(using KDE 5.14.0/Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch)
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