I need to aggregate a lot of details on what I’ve tried so far, but I figured I’d make this post now since I have time over lunch.
I purchased a used Thinkpad Yoga X1 gen 6 from a university surplus sale. Intending to move away from the data hoarder that is Microsoft I of course installed Linux. I decided on Linux Mint since I haven’t touched Linux in about a decade and I’ve forgotten everything.
Everything that I need to use correctly for job applications, printing, etc is working just fine, but much of the reason I bought the yoga is to use the Wacom stylus pen for drawing and taking notes.
It was working in Windows, but now does not seem to be recognized in Linux. It’s odd since the touchscreen does work.
I did find this post which I will try to follow tonight: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxOnThinkpad/comments/yvmr1s/how_to_get_your_wacom_pen_working_on_a_thinkpad/
If anyone has had experience with this or has some advice for a new newbie, I’d very much appreciate it!
Well yogas are pretty much as shitty as ideapads. The same keyboard model, no upgradability and the feeling yo want to kill yourself every time you try to use one.
Thank you for your 2 cents, but do you have any advice on the issue I’m facing?
Which DE are you using? Cinnamon? Mate and Xfce might lack tablet features
X11 tablet interfaces do exist, but they all use mouse emulation, which is a pretty poor experience.
I can speak to the xfce experience on a surface pro 6.
Oh yeah. Forgot about that. It’s ok for note taking but not so much for drawing. Hows palm rejection tho?
If you can get it working, pretty bad.
Oof
22.2 Cinnamon
Cinnamon I believe. I’ll double-Check.
Can you try live iso? If your tablet functionality wont work there I suggest making live iso of other distro as there are plenty. Many of them use Cinnamon DE which you can customise to look exactly like mint.
I rock cachyos like this but it’s not as begginer friendly as minty
I tried a live iso of mint already. I’ll try Studio when I have some time and get back to you.
Studio? Like… Ubuntu Studio?
That’s what I was thinking. yes
Yoo! That’s what I was starting my linux adventure with! Aah funny times
I ran libinput record And it returned event6 as Wacom HID 527F Pen Showing size as 302x188mm Capabilities: tablet Lots of other info.
Absolute x, y, pressure, tilt x, tilt y
I also installed
input-wacom
And libwacom
And checked that xf86-input-wacom was already installed.I also tried opentabletdriver. It does not detect the tablet.
Got myself bootable usb with linux mint on cinnamon.
On Thinkpad X230T pen works with pressure sensor and palm rejection. In tablet settings system says it’s Wacom ISDv4 E6
On X1 yoga Gen.1 it works out of the box too with palm rejection and pressure sensor. System did not detected niether pen nor tablet in tablet settings. Wierd.
EDIT: running xsetwacom --list in terminal on X1 shows stylus, ereaser and finger touch
What does palm rejection mean?
Intended to prevent accidental input from the side of your palm, when it’s resting on the screen, while using the stylus.
Ah of course. Makes sense.
