/press-and-hold

Press-and-hold graphics tablet pen action for X from Windows (ish)

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press-and-hold

In Windows 7 and up there is a 'pen action' when using a graphics tablet. If you hold a pen for some, anywhere, on the same spot, a righclick would happen as shown on this screenshot.

I wanted to have something like this in Linux as well, so I wrote this quick little tool which does something like that. It's not perfect but it does its job well with my tablet.

I am using a Genius EasyPen i405X, so there might be some additional configuration needed in order to make it work with some other inputs like Wacom.

Also, this was built ontop of the xinput "driver", as opposed to something like wizardpen.

requirements

  • X11/Xlib.h (libx11 on Arch)
  • X11/extensions/XTest.h (libxtst on Arch)

config

  • TARGETFILE = tablet's input file ($ ls -la /dev/input btw).
  • DEBUG = if you want to see every event being printed out.
  • THRESHOLD = how many seconds to wait before a right click occurs? In other words, how many seconds the pen needs to be pressed in order for the right click to be sent.
  • RADIUS = sensitivity, how many pixels are you allowed to move your pen before you lift it up from the tablet. I don't use the full tablet area so my cursor wiggles a bit.

Other stuff: ie.code might not be 330 for your tablet, so such things are worth debugging (line 41).

compile and run

run make. You will need superuser access to run it. Fork it in the bg or something.