Wacom for left handed

[Faldaril]

I searched everywhere but I couldn’t find any information, you are my last hope. I have a Wacom Intuos M CTL-6100, I would like to hold it upside down for the cable, but I would have to set it for left-handed use, unfortunately there seems to be no way to do this change. Can you help me? It seems absurd to me that it doesn’t have this function

[Celes]

You have to look for these settings in the Wacom Tablet Properties.

The location varies according to the model, but tablets with express keys will have a left/right option which I think also rotates the tablet to the correct orientation, and some others have a “orientation/handeness” setting for the pen that likely influences the setup.

[Faldaril]

Thanks a lot, but as much as I searched for any reference in the wacom center and in the tablet settings I could not find anything at all.
I’ve been trying to figure out how to reverse the tablet orientation since this morning but it seems like a non-existent option

[MangaTengu]

On linux I did it programmatically with xsetwacom

xsetwacom set "<the name of your stylus>" rotate half
xsetwacom set "<the name of your eraser>" rotate half
xsetwacom set "<the name of your pad>" rotate half

If you are using macOS or Windows it should be easy to find in the mapping options in your gui.

[Faldaril]

unfortunately it’s exactly the screen that I can’t find, the only one I can find is this one:

[MangaTengu]

You should be able to locate or generate via export your .wacomprefs which is an xml file.
inside there is something like

<Orientation type="integer">1</Orientation> <!-- right-handed landscape -->
<Orientation type="integer">2</Orientation> <!-- portrait -->
<Orientation type="integer">3</Orientation> <!-- left-handed landscape -->
<Orientation type="integer">4</Orientation> <!-- flipped portrait -->

You can cycle through 1 to 4. To do so, change the value to 2, 3 or 4, save the file and load it.

[Faldaril]

I can try but I’m not sure what I could do, maybe the best thing is to give up this change. After all it’s not essential, it’s just a matter of making work more comfortable.
I just don’t understand why my GUI for the wacom center is so different from the ones I’ve seen around. Anyway, thanks for the help

[sooz]

Have you tried the Wacom subreddit?

[Faldaril]

Yes but I found little and that little required the interface that I can’t find.
Unfortunately I don’t know where to reach it, I use the wacom center but from there I can’t find anything. I’ll start by saying that it’s updated to the latest version, so I guess it’s the correct one

[sooz]

Try this - it shows how to change the orientation. Do you know how to find the mapping page in the Wacom center?

~~https://101.wacom.com/UserHelp/en/Orientation.htm~~

EDIT: I think this may only be available for tablets with buttons on the left. The CTL has buttons across the top.

[Faldaril]

Unfortunately it always brings me back to the non-existent wacom center screen.
Tomorrow I will try to write to Wacom, hoping they will answer me, as I said I would like to change the orientation of the tablet for a matter of convenience not for a pressing need but it seems absurd to me that there is no fast and effective way from the GUI.

[Lynx3d]

Hm…reading a bit, it seems like Wacom just doesn’t offer that option on the non-Pro Intuos models. Apparently you can do it by manual editing of the configuration files one some (newer?) drivers, as MangaTengu mentioned, but Wacom may change that ever so often…

To me it looks like they deliberately gimp those models to give people more reasons to buy the Pro versions…an in turn offer the non-Pro at more competitive prices to Huion, XP-Pen etc.

If you can’t figure out a way, maybe OpenTabletDriver can do it, it lists Wacom CTL-6100 as supported, but I can’t find anything about orientation settings in their Wiki.
Otherwise, I’m afraid you have to go Linux, where you don’t have these artificial resstrictions.

[Faldaril]

What nice people they are
But shouldn’t they at least specify it?
Not that it’s a drama, but it’s made in such a way that over time the connection cable wears out and I wanted to avoid this by keeping the tablet upside down, so that the cable isn’t always bent, nothing dramatic but in practice they made it impossible.

[MangaTengu]

I know it may look foreign when not used to but finding and editing the value is feasible.
It’s up to you if you want to try.

[Faldaril]

I’m a bit clumsy with these things, but I can give it a try, also because from what I’ve seen I don’t have many alternatives
But I’ll try tomorrow, tonight I’m tired and therefore not very concentrated. Thanks for the support. If I succeed it means I’m turning into a real geek