Configuring the XpPen ACK05 Remote with only FLOSS on GNU/Linux: my investigation and workarounds. :linux: 🔧
Configuring the XpPen ACK05 Remote with only FLOSS on GNU/Linux: my investigation and workarounds. :linux: 🔧 23 comments
@Konqi Hey, yes. My last one was a Intuos Pro Large, a gift from Wacom (src: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article921/ ), but I managed to "scratch it to death" and make the stylus wobble so much in 9 months of intensive usage that this model wasn't usable anymore... Their quality really went downhill while still getting a high price tag. @davidrevoy Excellent! Thank you David, I was asking you about your experience because following your post series I started to get interested into maybe acquire one inexpensive table for personal use. @davidrevoy I was just thinking I should check your blog to see how that brand plays with foss... Your timing is immaculate @kate 😊 Thank you. Well, I have so far workaround for the 16 Artist Pro (gen2) and the 24 Pro ( https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/hardware ), all other model of this brand is still a bit in the unknown. @silmathoron Hey, yes, I'm still on X11, KDE Debian 12. (due to Krita not being designed for Wayland and buggy under XWayland, issues with color management, and tablet configuration). Udev is also part of Wayland, afaik, so it should also work there ™ (but untested here) @davidrevoy I had looked into this and decided to design my own macropad instead. I figured it would be a pain to configure in Linux. :blobcry: @TopazRabbit You did the right thing, imo! 👍 This ACK05 is so locked at its core... When I see in comparison the current Kickstarter for the new Duckypad Pro ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dekunukem/duckypad-pro-advanced-macro-scripting-beyond-qmk-via ) and all the features it puts on the table and the ease of configuration... the OLED screen, etc... :blobaww: It's amazing how far XPpen are lagging behind in terms of usability despite having the hardware. @TopazRabbit @davidrevoy I'd love to see your progress. I did a macropad for Linux for myself on the cheap. I use it daily and it is magical! https://github.com/poleguy/remap I also use a work provided huion Kamvas pro 13 for remote whiteboard type engineering work (krita mostly). Pen works fine but I never bothered configuring the buttons on it. @poleguy @davidrevoy Here's what I have so far. No public plans available yet, but I'll get around to it eventually. Uses QMK for config and has hot swappable sockets for the keys. @davidrevoy I have somewhat accepted this fate and tried to use it with the input remapper program. As for the tablet I wish to see udev-hid-bpf work with default Debian kernel. that would take away some burden of keeping the liquorix kernel up to date for security reasons. @raghukamath Oh yes, this Debian policy to not get the bpf system in their default kernels is really a pain... I haven't retried the input-remapper in age with this device and forgot about it: can it bypass the two key shortcut and assign instead only a single keypress? (eg. reassigning the Ctrl+O to a simple B?) @davidrevoy Yes it can, I have mapped it to E key. The only issue I found that it is hard to map Ctrl N since input remapper captures this as a shortcut for itself to create a new shortcut entry scheme :) so it drops your exisiting changes when you press Ctrl N and creates new list of entries :P. May be worth filing a bug with input remapper but I did not have time to check it out further. @raghukamath Thank you for the feedback and confirming, I had a vague souvenir input-remapper was indeed capable of this. (and haha for Ctrl+N. I had the same issue with running evtest ; the Ctrl+Shift+Z (w because of azerty here) button was triggering the "Close Session" of Konsole here. Impossible to get the MSC scan code of the key without configuring the shortcut of Konsole. 😆) @davidrevoy Talking about open-source firmware, are there any macropads that use QMK? qmk.fm/
@davidrevoy I found using the xppen artist pro 16tp on Ubuntu with wayland and multiple screens to be a crap fest with crashing drivers for the tablet functionality and setting the active area in the software being a pain. The screen came straight up though |
@davidrevoy Hello David! I did not realize that you are not using Wacom tablets anymore.