This
drawing tablet works out of the box on my system. I am using a custom 3.8.5-ck kernel, but as far as I know it should work on debian wheezy and above.
Anyway, plug it in and you're up and running. If you use your fingers it'll work like a regular touchpad (i.e. movement is relative to the previous location) whereas if you use the stylus the movement is absolute. You can use the GNOME 3 wacom app to change the setting:
If you want to annotate a pdf during a presentation you can use e.g. Xournal:
Set to One page, hit F11 for presentation mode, and zoom in using CTRL +.
To make the yellow eraser tip work for erasing, go to Options and select Eraser Tip.
You can now draw
You can compare my hand-writing on paper vs using the tablet. Neither is particularly flattering for someone in their mid-thirties...
You can then erase
Note how there are no tool boxes in the images above. You
can set the fullscreen view by editing the ~/.xournal/config file -- first generate the file by hitting Options/Save Preferences. Next, edit it and change the interface_fullscreen variable.
I like
interface_fullscreen=drawarea pen_toolbar
which looks like this:
Finally,
to disable touch input during a presentation
do this:
First get your device name
xsetwacom --list devices
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus id: 10 type: STYLUS
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger touch id: 11 type: TOUCH
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen eraser id: 15 type: ERASER
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger pad id: 16 type: PAD
sudo vim /usr/bin/toggle_touch
#!/bin/bash
## Get the "Device name" or ID number
## for touch from 'xsetwacom list dev'
DEVICE="Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger touch"
TOUCH_STATE=`xsetwacom get "$DEVICE" touch`
if [ "$TOUCH_STATE" == "on" ]
then
echo "Touch is ON, turning OFF."
xsetwacom set "$DEVICE" touch off
else
echo "Touch is OFF, turning ON."
xsetwacom set "$DEVICE" touch on
fi
sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/toggle_touch
You can the do
me@niobium:~$ toggle_touch
Touch is ON, turning OFF.
me@niobium:~$ toggle_touch
Touch is OFF, turning ON
All I need to figure out now is how to get Xournal to interpret my presenter button in a way that makes it forward one slide per press, instead of half a slide.
