Over the years, various xsetwacom incantations have confined the tablet stylus to the left-hand landscape monitor on my desk. Updating to Xubuntu 18.04 once again changed the monitors names (from HEAD-0 back to DP-1), but xsetwacom stopped working.
My startup.sh script runs from Xubuntu’s “Application Autostart” list, so X is already running and xsetwacom should do the right thing. Alas, even with $XAUTHORITY and $DISPLAY set correctly (automagically by X), xsetwacom still didn’t corral the cursor.
Some rummaging around the Intertubes suggested a delay would allow X to get up to speed and, indeed, sleeping for two seconds solved the problem:
logger "startup.sh - copying Xauthority values" whoami > /tmp/who cp /home/ed/.Xauthority /tmp/Xauthority.txt echo $XAUTHORITY > /tmp/XAUTHORITY.txt cp $XAUTHORITY /tmp/xauth.cp echo $DISPLAY > /tmp/DISPLAY.txt # xsetwacom needs an additional delay after $XAUTHORITY and $DISPLAY become correct logger "startup.sh - waiting aimlessly" sleep 2s logger "startup.sh - doing wacom setup" xsetwacom --verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6x8 Pen stylus" MapToOutput "DP-1" xsetwacom --verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6x8 Pen eraser" MapToOutput "DP-1"
Sheesh & similar remarks.
The complete Bash script as a GitHub Gist:
| logger "startup.sh – starting" | |
| logger "startup.sh – setting configurations" | |
| #setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp | |
| #pactl set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo | |
| amixer -D pulse sset Master 41% | |
| amixer -D pulse sset Master 1%- | |
| gsettings set org.gnome.Evince page-cache-size 500 | |
| # enable Kinesis volume and calculator keys | |
| #/home/ed/bin/Kinesis/kfreestyle2d /dev/hidraw6 & | |
| logger "startup.sh – starting applications" | |
| /usr/bin/thunar & | |
| /usr/bin/gimp & | |
| /usr/bin/chromium-browser & | |
| /usr/bin/digikam & | |
| /usr/bin/firefox & | |
| /usr/bin/thunderbird & | |
| /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal & | |
| logger "startup.sh – copying Xauthority values" | |
| # similar lines in .xprofile happen before X grabs the display | |
| whoami > /tmp/who | |
| cp /home/ed/.Xauthority /tmp/Xauthority.txt | |
| echo $XAUTHORITY > /tmp/XAUTHORITY.txt | |
| cp $XAUTHORITY /tmp/xauth.cp | |
| echo $DISPLAY > /tmp/DISPLAY.txt | |
| # xsetwacom needs an additional delay after $XAUTHORITY and $DISPLAY become correct | |
| logger "startup.sh – waiting aimlessly" | |
| sleep 2s | |
| logger "startup.sh – doing wacom setup" | |
| xsetwacom –verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6×8 Pen stylus" MapToOutput "DP-1" | |
| #xsetwacom –verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6×8 Pen stylus" MapToOutput "HEAD-0" | |
| xsetwacom –verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6×8 Pen eraser" MapToOutput "DP-1" | |
| #xsetwacom –verbose set "Wacom Graphire3 6×8 Pen eraser" MapToOutput "HEAD-0" | |
| logger "startup.sh — done" |
The cruft in there reminds me of previous fixes / workarounds / haxx, so it’s not entirely wasted space.
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