2

Can i actually turn off touch mode in Ubuntu 18.04.3? My current Wacom is Intuos 5 touch s pth-450. Was trying to disable it in Tweak mode and also in dconf editor. So far i still have touch mode.

Łukasz Puzdrowski
  • 23

1 Answers1

2

Ubuntu 18.04.3 does not offer a graphical control for disabling touch on these kinds of tablets. It is, however, possible to disable touch through xsetwacom or with a custom xorg.conf.d configuration.

xsetwacom

You can use the xsetwacom command to immediately enable or disable touch. The setting will only persist for your current login session. See man xsetwacom for more details.

xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos5 touch S Finger touch" touch off

xorg.conf.d

You can use an xorg.conf.d file to change the default touch setting for your tablet. See man wacom and man xorg.conf.d for more details. The following snippet should be saved as a file inside the xorg.conf.d directory (e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-wacom-touchpad.conf)

# Disable touch on all Wacom touchpads by default.
# https://askubuntu.com/a/1190357/736425

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Wacom Touchpad Disable"
    MatchDriver "wacom"
    MatchIsTouchpad "true"
    Option "Touch" "off"
EndSection
jigpu
  • 321
  • 1
  • 6
  • Can i add interface that i have on kde enviroment were i can disable touch mode with a shortcut or change screen mapping? – Łukasz Puzdrowski Jan 25 '20 at 18:51
  • Also could someone tell me how can i make a command that plays "xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos5 touch S Finger touch" touch off if already off plays xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos5 touch S Finger touch" touch on othewise it plays xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos5 touch S Finger touch" touch off" . So i could add it as a keyboard shortcut ? – Łukasz Puzdrowski Jan 28 '20 at 20:19
  • One-liner:

    ID="Wacom Intuos5 touch S Finger touch"; NEWSTATE=$(xsetwacom get "$ID" touch | sed 's/off/1/; s/on/0/; s/0/off/; s/1/on/'); echo "Turning touch $NEWSTATE"; xsetwacom set "$ID" touch $NEWSTATE

     – jigpu Feb 07 '20 at 22:18