Tablet Wacom Intuos Pro M on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS is set for left-hand control. In the 'Map Buttons' settings the buttons are correctly displayed on screen on the right-hand side if Left-Handed orientation is selected (and on the left-hand side if Left-Handed Orientation is unselected), but these settings have no effect on the direction of the cursor movements. Whatever option is selected, the cursor always moves opposite to finger movement on the tablet pad like for Right-Handed set-up. I have restarted the PC but it has no effect.

              System:   Kernel: 5.8.0-48-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A    Desktop: Gnome 3.36.4 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa)  Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z97X-UD5H v: N/A serial: <filter>    Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z97X-UD5H v: x.x serial: <filter>    UEFI: American Megatrends v: F10 date: 08/03/2015  CPU:   Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-4790 bits: 64 type: MT MCP    arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 8192 KiB    flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx    bogomips: 57467    Speed: 898 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 944 2: 932    3: 929 4: 912 5: 918 6: 977 7: 939 8: 936  Graphics:   Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics    vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0    Device-2: NVIDIA GM200 [GeForce GTX TITAN X] vendor: eVga.com.    driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0    Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: nouveau    resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz    OpenGL: renderer: NV120 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.2.6 direct render: Yes  Audio:   Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0    Device-2: Intel 9 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0    Device-3: NVIDIA GM200 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com.    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1    Device-4: C-Media CMI8788 [Oxygen HD Audio] vendor: ASUSTeK Virtuoso 100    driver: snd_virtuoso v: kernel bus ID: 07:04.0    Device-5: Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000 type: USB    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 3-3.1:3    Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.8.0-48-generic  Network:   Device-1: Intel Ethernet I217-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: 3.2.6-k    port: f080 bus ID: 00:19.0    IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>    Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros Killer E220x Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte    driver: alx v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0    IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>  Drives:   Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 278.03 GiB (29.8%)    ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Smart Modular Tech. model: SHGP31-1000GM-2    size: 931.51 GiB  Partition:   ID-1: / size: 913.74 GiB used: 277.81 GiB (30.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1    ID-2: /boot size: 704.5 MiB used: 210.7 MiB (29.9%) fs: ext4    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2    ID-3: swap-1 size: 976.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-2  Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 45.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 29 C    Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nouveau fan: 570  Info:   Processes: 279 Uptime: 14m Memory: 31.18 GiB used: 2.39 GiB (7.7%)    Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 5.0.17    inxi: 3.0.38

asked Mar 27 at 6:51

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  • Just to clarify. You said "Whatever option is selected, the cursor always moves opposite to finger movement on the tablet pad like for Right-Handed set-up." Is your issue with touch input, or do you also have a problem with pen input? GNOME (annoyingly) does not rotate a tablet's touch input, but pen input should be rotated correctly. You may need to run something like xsetwacom set <id> rotate half to rotate the touch device separately.

    Mar 29 at 14:21

  • @jigpu This is quite surprising indeed. I just tested the pend input and the cursor moves directionally according to the pen movement, but in opposite direction when I use finger input.

    Mar 30 at 17:40

  • @jigpu also I am not sure what I should replace <id> with in the code line. Don't find nay such peripheral id for the tablet.

    Mar 30 at 17:49

  • Use xsetwacom list to get a list of all Wacom devices and then use the quoted name of the touch device as the <id> in the command above. For example, on my system I'd use "Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch" since that is the touch device listed for my tablet.

    Mar 31 at 19:00

  • @jigpu Brilliant, thank you. Finger touch is the right device to rotate. username:~$ xsetwacom list Wacom Intuos Pro M Pad pad id: 15 type: PAD Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen stylus id: 16 type: STYLUS Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen eraser id: 17 type: ERASER Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen cursor id: 18 type: CURSOR Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch id: 19 type: TOUCH username:~$ xsetwacom set 15 rotate half Property 'Wacom Rotation' does not exist on device. username:~$ xsetwacom set 19 rotate half username:~$

    Mar 31 at 19:12