wacom squashing shapes and lines when mapped to widescreen monitor

[Todd A McCullough]

I'm experiencing a slight problem in relation to drawing with my old wacom Graphire 2 and my new widescreen monitor.

I am using ubuntu 11.10 64 bit.
Wacom Graphire 2.
Gnome Shell - which might be conflicting with something in ubuntu

Anywas, I thought I was maybe going crazy. But everything seems to be mapping incorrectly and is being squished when mapped to the monitor.

To confirm it was happening I drew and elongated oval that was stretched vertically on a piece of paper. I than traced with the wacom and it was elongated horizontally. Squashed.

All my strokes are being treated this way and I am not sure how to fix it. Makes it difficult to draw what I am seeing in my mind's eye.

Can you help.

[Todd A McCullough (howdytodd)]

I just wanted to add that I hope I am not irritating anyone. Maybe this has been posted in the wrong place. Please accept my apologies if it has.

Thanks.

[Limvot (nathanbraswell)]

Hi, I don't have a permanent fix, but you can temporally change many different tablet properties using xsetwacom.

"xsetwacom -h" will give you the instructions you need. Basically:

xsetwacom --list devices Will list the your devices.

xsetwacom --set "device name" parameter values will set device parameter by name
xsetwacom --get "device name" parameter will show device parameter value. can also use all to show values for all parameters.

To fix the distortion, you need to reduce the usable area of your tablet to match the ratio of your screen.
http://www.gimptalk.com/index.php?/topic/17755-install-guide-wacom-drawing-tablets-with-gimp/ has a decent explanation of this, but editing the xorg may or may not work anymore. You can get the current area using the --get option. Once you calculate the new area, set it using the --set option.
To fix the distortion for me, I used the following commands:

xsetwacom --set "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 stylus" Area 0 0 21648 12177
xsetwacom --set "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 eraser" Area 0 0 21648 12177
xsetwacom --set "Wacom BambooFun 6x8 cursor" Area 0 0 21648 12177

[Todd A McCullough (howdytodd)]

Thanks.
I recently upgraded to 12.04 which has allowed me to set the monitor/tablet ratio which has fixed the distortion problems.

It also forced me to get a new tablet! Since I was losing even more space on my already teeny tiny wacom.

Do these drivers work with other drawing tablets? Or do they only work with wacoms?

[Janne Kronbäck (janne-kronback)]

This bug report is invalid.
'xsetwacom' should work as advertised.