Dual and Multi Monitor Set Up II

The wacom driver does not support multi-monitor setups directly - handling of such setups is catered for by the X Server. xsetwacom does however provide a parameter to easily map a tablet to a screen.

'''Requirements'''

• X Server 1.8 or later
• xf86-input-wacom-0.10.9 or later

MapToOutput

The ''MapToOutput'' xsetwacom parameter maps the wacom tablet to a specific screen. This only applies for [http://www.x.org/wiki/Projects/XRandR XRandR] configurations, not to NVIDIA TwinView. If you don't use the NVIDIA binary driver, you have a XRandR configuration and can go ahead. If you use the NVIDIA binary driver, you'll need to manually set the coordinate mapping.

''MapToOutput'' takes an output name as parameter and then adjusts the coordinate transformation matrix to the screen size of that output. The monitor names can be obtained with the ''xrandr'' tool.

$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3360 x 1200, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA1 connected 1920x1200+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 519mm x 324mm
   1920x1200      60.0*+
   1600x1200      60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.1     60.0  
   800x600        75.0     60.3  
   640x480        75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  
LVDS1 connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 190mm
   1440x900       60.1*+   50.1  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   640x480        59.9  
DVI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

In this example, the three available outputs are "VGA1", "LVDS1" and "DVI1". To map a tool to the VGA monitor, simply run

xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos4 6x9 stylus" MapToOutput VGA1

xsetwacom then goes off, gets the screen size for the given output (in relation to the total desktop) and calculates a 3x3 matrix that maps the tablet input range to the given output. This matrix is set as the server's "Device Transformation Matrix". You can check the matrix by running xinput and looking at the value of this property. xinput list-props "Wacom Intuos4 6x9 stylus"

MapToOutput Without xrandr (eg. DTU-1031X):

  xsetwacom set **pen id** maptooutput 1280x780+1280+0

Where pen id is obtained from

  xsetwacom --list

Coordinate Transformation Matrix

If you use the NVIDIA binary driver or are running an earlier version of xf86-input-wacom, you can manually calculate the matrix and set the property with the ''xinput'' tool. While the following may seem a little daunting if you look at the examples you'll find it is not that hard.