Wacom tablet hotplug is no longer enabled by default
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Release Notes for Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Oliver Grawert | ||
wacom-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
|
Timo Aaltonen |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
The topic was raised at another bugs discussion but it merits its own bug.
The previous discussion can be found at at the end of
https:/
The issue is that fdi file that makes hot-plug work for stylus on all wacom tablets is no longer installed by default making the devices completely nonfunctional without complicated X setup or doing a cryptic file copy like this:
sudo cp /usr/share/
/etc/hal/
Surely, it is sensible to allow for new users to have hotplug and partial functionality over a totally nonfunctional device.
The only negative side-effect I see is that it interferes with the set-up of any people who have their devices already configured in X conf file. And those people are more than capable of removing the fdi file. Or they may, as I have, actually opt to using the device as hot-plug and with partial capabilities rather than permanently configured and requiring X restart when you did not have it plugged in at X start.
Related branches
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
assignee: | nobody → ogra |
>>Surely, it is sensible to allow for new users to have hotplug and partial functionality over a totally nonfunctional device.<<
I agree with this but can someone explain why the advanced settings for tablets can't be used with the hotplug. Restarting X to change settings seems like the stone age!!!