losing settings switching to and from virtual consoles

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:18:17PM +1000, Peter Rayner wrote:
> I have a wacom graphics tablet that I want to maintain in "absolute"
> mode. I also frequently use virtual consoles.
> This seems to lose the absolute setting. 
> Here is an example:
> Within an emacs shell on the X display:
> $ xsetwacom set "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 Finger touch" "Mode" "Absolute"
> >  xsetwacom get "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 Finger touch" "Mode"
> Absolute
> <now switch to virtual console then switch back>
> >  xsetwacom get "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 6x8 Finger touch" "Mode"
> Relative
> 
> I have the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-wacom.conf
> Section "InputClass"
> 	Identifier "Wacom class"
> 	MatchProduct "Wacom|WACOM|WALTOP|Hanwang|PTK-540WL"
> 	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
> 	Driver "wacom"
> 	Option "Mode" "Absolute"
> EndSection
> 
> which doesn't seem to help.
> I bet I'm missing something obvious here but would appreciate a pointer.

which desktop environment are you running? GNOME had a bug where it would
set touch devices to relative, fixed with GNOME_SETTINGS_DAEMON_3_4_0-21-ge40cb71

Cheers,
   Peter