Lenovo X61t Tablet and Ubuntu 10.04

1. No more wacom-tools package. it is now part of the Xserver for the wacom tablet, so if your tablet works, xsetwacom is installed

2. xsetwacom does not recognize the old names for devices. You need to use --set "Serial Wacom Tablet"

3. The name of the rotation is no longer 0, 1, 2 and 3. These values have been replaced by "NONE", "CW", "HALF", "CCW".

So a common xsetwacom line would be:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" Rotation HALF

I use acpi to autorotate. I have a script that gets called to rotate the screen using xrandr, sets the wacom table accordingly, and finally,
sets the cursor keys according to the rotation.

When the tablet moves into laptop mode these configurations are reset to the normal values.

I have also created a script for sawfish that resizes the current window to fit into the screen. It gets called when an xrandr event happens (my patch to sawfish to support this was recently integrated into mainstream).

perhaps the biggest difference I can see with Ubuntu 10.04 is power management. My laptop is gaining 1 to 2 watts since switching, but by far the biggest gain is when I change my laptop to starving mode, and its power can go as low as 9 watts when I am reading. Amazing.

--dmg

Update: May 23.

The drivers for the tablet have changed the defaults. easystroke didn't work as usual (whenever I wanted to click the second button,
a first button was also generated when the stylus touched the screen). The solution is:

xsetwacom --set "Serial Wacom Tablet" TPCButton 0

due to popular demand, here are my main scripts and configuration files. They come with no warranty and no support. use at your own risk

x61t.tar