Wacom Hardware - Displayed in Inkscape's Input Devices...Unable to Check

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Environment:  Centos7, Gnome v3.14.2, Inkscape v0.48.4 r9939, Wacom Intuos 4 Pro M, NVIDIA driver v367.35, X.Org server 11 v1.17.2,  using 3 Monitors

Question: I want to enable features available to the Wacom input device, but am unable to "check" it in the Input Devices preferences dialog.  Only "Core Pointer" is checked and cannot be unchecked.   
# cat /home/myusername/.config/inkscape/preferences.xml |grep Wacom

yields:
       id="P:Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen stylus"
       id="P:Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch"
       id="E:Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen eraser"
       id="C:Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen cursor"
       id="P:Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen pad"

Any suggestions, xorg, xsetwacom or preferences.xml edits you can recommend for enabling these features?  For instance, eraser doesn't work.  Pen works, because it is behaving like a mouse for full [3-monitor] screen.


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I have found in another image manipulator software that these features were disabled, but I was able to turn them on in "window" mode.  Is there such a setting or xml edit for Inkscape?

Please direct me to a more appropriate forum if this is not where this Inkscape related post should be made.

Thank you

    DO'AH!!  Through test pilot clicking, I see now that the individual Wacom components can be selected, but not the overall Wacom component.  I think this post may be helpful for others though.


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[brynn]

Welcome to  Inkscape Community!

Mmm, I'm not a tablet user, so I probably can't help much.  So I'm glad it sounds like you solved your problem!

I can say that we've seen various problems when using Inkscape in a dual or multiple monitor configuration.  Or if you change your orientation (landscape vs portrait) for the system (not for Inkscape document).  The one that comes to mind are certain parts of the Inkscape window are not clickable.  But hopefully you won't run into that.

I have found in another image manipulator software that these features were disabled, but I was able to turn them on in "window" mode.  Is there such a setting or xml edit for Inkscape?

There is a Window mode in the Input Devices dialog.  See the Mode dropdown menu.  Also in Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > Input Devices, there are a couple of options which need to be checked for using a graphics tablet.

Please direct me to a more appropriate forum if this is not where this Inkscape related post should be made.

There is another Inkscape forum, and we're hoping to combine them soon.  If you had not reported that you solved the problem, I probably would have sent you there, since they have more experience with graphics tablets there.

I'm not sure what you mean by "test pilot clicking".  Does that mean you just started clicking around, and eventually found the problem was solved?  Or is it some particular technique?

Oh, I just noticed you're using Inkscape version 0.48.4.  Do you have some particular reason not to upgrade?  0.91 is the current stable version, and 0.92 will probably be released in the next couple of months.  (yes, the version numbers skipped from 0.49 to 0.91!)  The Input Devices dialog might have changed significantly since 0.48.x.  So upgrading might help.