Wacom settings to remove touch

[Bleke]

Type of device* : Display tablet
Brand and version of the device: Wacom Cintiq Companion 2
System** : Pop OS (Linux)

Here are my settings to turn off touch sensitivity. It works a bit, but there is still touch, especially around the edges of the tablet. Is there anything more I can do to disable touch or gestures or anything else that causes unintended window switching?

xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom ISDv5 326 Finger touch' TOUCH off
xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom ISDv5 326 Finger touch' TapTime 0
xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom ISDv5 326 Finger touch' gesture off
xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom ISDv5 325 Pen pad' gesture off
xsetwacom -v --set 'Wacom ISDv5 325 Pen stylus' gesture off

[Zer0Frost]

You should be able to turn off touch settings directly from Wacom Drivers and set it to not use windows ink.
Atleast my Intuos drivers have that ability.

[raghukamath]

There is a checkbox in KDE plasma tablet settings to disable touch.

[hulmanen]

Odd, the first line is what I use to switch touch off on a Cintiq , and it works fine.

[Bleke]

@Zer0Frost Thanks, but I don’t use Windows at all.

@raghukamath Perhaps I should install KDE and try it out. It would have to be a last resort though as I don’t have unlimited internet quota. Also I wonder if that checkbox doesn’t just send the TOUCH OFF command to xsetwacom.
 

It’s like there is a 1 pixel border around the screen where touch still is on. It triggers sporadically, perhaps because touch uses many points to operate. But that’s just a conjecture on my part.

I keep the keyboard above (or rather beyond) the tablet, and it’s mostly when I rest my arms on the tablet to type something that touch events triggers.

[raghukamath]

I am on Fedora 35, and it by default hands over touch from wacom to libinput which is much superior driver for touch. it basically treats it like a laptop touchpad. Fedora has a rule in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d in the file 71-libinput-overrides-wacom.conf with the following lines.

# Assign libinput back to touchpads on Wacom tablets
Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "libinput overrides wacom touchpads"
        MatchDriver "wacom"
        MatchIsTouchpad "true"
        Driver "libinput"
EndSection

So I can enable disable touch from the touch pad setting in KDE systemsettings

But even if libinput is not taking over the touch part KDE has a graphic tablet setting section which gives the checkbox to simply disable touch. It is explained here in the documentation. The setting looks like this -
https://imgur.com/oMoCwcr
[ This is a screenshot from kde forum]
As you can see there is a checkbox to enable or disable touch.

The KDE tablet configuration is very much superior to any gui settings I have seen on linux for tablets. I can even map my tablet area etc. It is a front end to xsetwacom and there is work going on to port this to wayland for future.

[Bleke]

This is good information. Thank you!

[raghukamath]

Oh and yes I forgot this setting section also gives you options to set keyboard shortcuts to various actions.