Disable touch of the tablet in Ubuntu Unity 14.04

Question

I've searched beforehand and the only suggestion I've found is this one but it doesn't work, at least not on my system (Ubuntu Unity 14.04 x64).

I need to disable the touch on my WACOM Bamboo Manga CTH-470 tablet so only the pen tip and eraser are recognized and not my hand when I accidentally touch it.

I know of this temporary solution:

xsetwacom --list

to list the output of the tablet (example)

inoki@innerdistance-Satellite-L650:~$ xsetwacom --list Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen stylus id: 11 type: STYLUS
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger touch id: 12 type: TOUCH
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Pen eraser id: 16 type: ERASER
Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger pad id: 17 type: PAD

then

xsetwacom --set # touch off

Using

inoki@innerdistance-Satellite-L650:~$ xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -d ' ' -f 8 TOUCH inoki@innerdistance-Satellite-L650:~$

has shown only the "TOUCH" word exactly as above.

I need to make it permanent, so I don't have to insert the command every time I want to work with my tablet.

Answer 1

in my case worked this:

xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom Intuos Pro M (WL) Finger touch' gesture off

test

xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom Bamboo 16FG 4x5 Finger touch' gesture off

Answer 2

Rather than rely on fixed character positions and cut, you could use sed instead, like this:

xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | sed -r "s/.*id: *([0-9]*).*/\1/"` touch off

Answer 3

First off, you still need to add the new command to your autostart configuration so that it's disabled to start with:

xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -c 40-42` touch off

Then try putting the following into a new file: /etc/pm/power.d/99_touchdisable:

#!/bin/bash

ac_power ()
{
    xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -c 40-42` touch off
}

battery_power ()
{
    xsetwacom --set `xsetwacom --list | grep TOUCH | cut -c 40-42` touch off
}

Then run sudo chmod 755 /etc/pm/power.d/99_touchdisable

Restart your tablet and try unplugging/plugging in your tablet.

If it doesn't work, check to see if you have different power profiles enabled. If it still isn't working, run sudo apt-get install pm-utils and try running sudo pm-powersave <true/false> to get it to run the script.