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Testing Wacom panel without a tablet or pen
Setup
The hid-replay utility that can replay device events, simulating pen and touch behavior. This utility provides pre-built binaries ready for use on its releases page, you can grab the hid-replay.zip file and run it with:
unzip hid-replay.zip
chmod +x hid-replay
sudo ./hid-replay <path-to-recording>
The tool can also be obtained from its source code with:
git clone https://github.com/hidutils/hid-replay/
To compile it use the cargo command after installing the required dependencies:
dnf install llvm-devel clang-devel # on Fedora
apt install llvm-dev libclang-dev # on Debian/Ubuntu
cargo build
sudo CARGO_INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local cargo install hid-replay
The last command will install hid-replay as /usr/local/bin/hid-replay.
Peter Hutterer kindly maintains a collection of Wacom device event recordings in a git repository that can be downloaded with:
git clone https://github.com/whot/wacom-recordings
Playing device recordings
After setting up the environment, you can run the hid-replay tool (inside the hid-tools folder):
sudo hid-replay <path-to-recording>
(where <path-to-recording> is one of the .hid files in the wacom-recordings collection.
Testing GNOME Settings Wacom panel
While the hid-replay tool runs in the background, you can open GNOME Settings -> Wacom and you will see the settings for the correspondent device of the recording.
For example:
sudo hid-replay wacom-recordings/Wacom\ Intuos\ Pro\ M/pen.pen-light-horizontal.hid
Limitations
This setup currently doesn't work in a container (such as Toolbx) as it has insufficient permissions.
This was tested in Fedora Workstation 39.