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Setting Up Wacom One Medium (Wacom CTL-672) On GNOME

Table of Contents

  1. Install OpenTabletDriver
  2. Configure OpenTabletDriver
  3. Configure GNOME

I’ve been getting into drawing again recently, but unfortunately, my Wacom Intuos tablet I got a year or two back got scratched up and became completely unresponsive.

Anyway, I got a used Wacom One Medium and it didn’t immediately work with GNOME, but I found I had to do the following things in order to make it work.

Here’s how I did that. I will also include the commands I used on Arch Linux but the links I will provide will also have instructions specialized for your system.

This was done on GNOME 48 so if it changed then idk.

Install OpenTabletDriver

https://opentabletdriver.net/Wiki/Install/Linux

paru -Sy opentabletdriver

Enable OpenTabletDriver Daemon (also re-enables on boot): https://opentabletdriver.net/Wiki/FAQ/Linux#autostart

systemctl --user enable opentabletdriver.service --now

Configure OpenTabletDriver

Open the OpenTabletDriver application and set the tablet input mode to Artist Mode at the bottom left. (Also do any other configuration to map the tablet to your display like how I’ve done)

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Configure GNOME

You will want to search for the Graphics Tablet setting in the GNOME search or look for it in the sidebar of the settings application.

Here are the conditions you need to make it work:

  1. You’ll want to disable Tablet mode for the External tablet device (in our case, that’s the One by Wacom (medium))
  2. You’ll want to enable Tablet mode for OpenTabletDriver Virtual Artist Tablet
  3. You’ll want to set Map to Monitor to Automatic. It seems that it uses the layout configured from the OpenTabletDriver configuration when you do this.

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Huzzah!