Feature request: add graphics tablet support (wacom) patch

[ghost]

Hello hope you are doing well. I was wondering are there plans for adding wacom tablet support? I recall sway has this support and I would think it would be really nice if dwl had it as well. As art creators and even academics in general would love this feature as it will allow us to use software such as gimp, krita, blender, xournalpp etc with our tablet without relying on the inefficiencies of the mouse. Sure we could always use sway full time and not go into dwl, however I have a lot of nice patches on dwl especially the swallow patch which I can't live without so my only option would be to request this feature for dwl even as a patch it would be more than enough.

Kind regards,

[Geronymos]

Here is the implementation from sway https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/4570/files. I also would like this feature. I might have a look at it myself if I find time :)

[Kuchteq]

It would be great to have a patch like that! One of the two caveats I have that make me still start up dwm from time to time.

[RibalGZ]

Maybe just adding a new libinput rule available in config.h which works similar to the xinput map-to-output command, where you specify the libinput pen ID and the monitor ID.

[nicolas3121]

would love to see this as well i'm quite dependant on xournalpp

[d4r1us-drk]

I also would love to see this implemented, I have a Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen5 and it comes with a pen and the screen is a wacom touchscreen. I'm using the touchscreen patch, but this only emulates a mouse and the pen isn't working.

[odrling]

It would still be nice to have tablet support in dwl, but in the meantime I have to mention OpenTabletDriver. It seems not to support every tablet under the sun but it's been working fine for me.

[Xgames123]

Here is the implementation from sway https://github.com/swaywm/sway/pull/4570/files. I also would like this feature. I might have a look at it myself if I find time :)

I'm currently trying to add this to dwl

[Xgames123]

I'm currently a bit stuck.

Does anyone know why my drawing tablet isn't getting a new_input event call. It does show up when I do libinput list-devices Do I need to do something to notify libinput to send it to the compositor?

Here my code: https://github.com/Xgames123/dwl/blob/drawingtablet/dwl.c

[RibalGZ]

I'm currently a bit stuck.

Does anyone know why my drawing tablet isn't getting a new_input event call. It does show up when I do libinput list-devices Do I need to do something to notify libinput to send it to the compositor?

Here my code: https://github.com/Xgames123/dwl/blob/drawingtablet/dwl.c

In case it helps, there is this article about input handling in wlroots: https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/17/Input-handling-in-wlroots.html

Towards the end of the article he makes a comment regarding the drawing tablet events.

[Xgames123]

I'm currently a bit stuck.

Does anyone know why my drawing tablet isn't getting a new_input event call. It does show up when I do libinput list-devices Do I need to do something to notify libinput to send it to the compositor?

Here my code: https://github.com/Xgames123/dwl/blob/drawingtablet/dwl.c

For some reason nothing gets a new_input call????? But the pointer and keyboard work?? The backend is multibackend with drm and libinput If I run on wayland backend all the events get send except for tablet (is probably because the host compositor doesn't support drawing tablets)