Re: xorg configuration by dbus

[Timo Aaltonen <timo.aaltonen@aalto.fi>]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Olivier wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 15:42:05 +0200, Olivier wrote:
> >
> > > In Debian Squeeze, is the Xorg configuration by dbus allowed?
> >
> > No.  Why do you want that?
> >
> > I'm testing the development implementation of GIMP, especially with a Wacom
> graphic tablet. I would like to use several different pens, which should be
> distinguished by GIMP, so it can attach different graphic tools and
> parameters to each pen. Alexia Death, one of the GIMP developer, is in
> charge of this part. She developed a package called  watahod, available on
> sourceforge. This package needs that dbus configuration is allowed.
>
> This package is needed for distinguishing the various Wacom pens. Alexia
> Death is aware that there is a slight risk in allowing dbus configuration.
> Maybe this could be an option proposed at the installation, and disabled by
> default?

If you are using squeeze then you should have noticed that wacom hotplug 
works just fine.. And if it doesn't handle multiple pens then that's a 
bug, and should be filed against xserver-xorg-input-wacom.


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Timo Aaltonen
Systems Specialist
IT Services, Aalto University School of Science and Technology