## Users Guide

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Hello and welcome to Asher’s Program s.

I have just made it easy for you to use Wacom Drawing Tablets on Linux Desktops with asherswacomdrawingtablet.
The program was developed in MX Linux. Using QT 5.
I have bought a Wacom Drawing Tablet from Amazon. It comes with a Pen and a drawing tablet. And when I went to hook it up with Linux it worked straight out of the box.

And the programs that came with the Linux Desktop left me some what wanting. So after reading the ability of the Tablet. I designed my own Desktop Application with a more user friendly interface.

Ok on the command line lets type out:
xsetwacom –list devices
You will see that I have 2 outputs

1 is a stylus with an ID of ???
and you will see that I have an Eraser with an ID of ???
Don’t ask me about the Eraser because the back of the pen DOES NOT erase. I repeat
the back of the pen DOES NOT ERASE.
So the program xsetwacom gives you everything that is need but in a command line interface.
So I broke down all the functions and features that the Wacom tablet had and turned it into an easy to use Desktop Application.
To test the program click file then check mark Just Test and check mark Show Output. Now when you click submit you will see exactly what the command line call is.
You will see xsetwacom tack tack XXX mode absolute
This is the exact thing that you would type in a terminal.
Map to Monitor is not being used.
Xsetwacom tack tack XXX Rotate none
and now the second ID number
xsetwacom tack tack set XXX mode absolute

xsetwacom tack tack set XXX Rotate none
Map to monitor is not being used.

And For the Second ID
xsetwacom tack tack XXX mode absolute

xsetwacom tack tack XXX Rotate none
Map to monitor is not being used.

SHOW SCREEN SHOT OF THE TABLET
Now the default position of the wacom tablet is Portrait with power cord facing Left.
If you want to turn the tablet 90 degrees to the Right I call this Clockwise. However if the show option is on you will notice that it says to rotate tablet counter-clockwise.
In Japan counter-clockwise is 90 degrees to the right. So only in Japan does Clockwise contradict the rest of the world as we think the clocks spin to the right but in Japan just the opposite is true.
So I corrected the program for the rest of the world.
If you click on Relative you will notice that Map to monitor disappears. Relative Mode is where ever the mouse is that is where you start. This is great for using the Tablet as a mouse.
If you click on Absolute which is the default mode. In this configuration the top left of the Tablet is the top left of your screen and the bottom right of the tablet is the bottom right of your screen.
However if you have Multiple monitors for example you have 2 monitors side by side. The default Tablet is Top Left Screen all the way to the bottom right of the 2nd screen.
With Map to Monitor you can choose what screen you want to use the Tablet with. So I you just want it on one monitor These are your options.
The draw back here is once you Map to Monitor you can not go back to Map to Monitor on all screens.
To use any of the other functions you will notice a Check Box With the word Activate, So if you want that option you must have the Activation Box clicked for the tablet to be changed.

If you want PC Button Mode to Change you first click on Activate then change the mode from off to on
and again if you want to change the Pressure Curve first Check the Activate and now Change the parameters.
So anyways I just went with the flow and set all ID given. There are up to 8

The program auto detects the tablets Id’s and functions completely by the click of a button.

## also see

asherswacomdrawingtablet Gettings Started
asherswacomdrawingtablet Users Guide
asherswacomdrawingtablet Keyboard Shortcuts
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