Hey,
first of all this is not about the touchsupport of the active pen but the top button some pens have!
In the last day or two i tryed setting up the top button of the lenovo active pen 2 and had some trouble…
The conection via bt was no problem (holding down top button 5-7sec) but then the pen will disconect.
The intended behavior(from lenovo active pen2) is as follows: when pressing the top button (short) the device will connect via bt and then send a key press after that it will disconect again.
The initial idea was to use udev rules but these never applyed with the pen maybe the connection time was too short ? information on this is welcome!
The workaround i use now is to use a service which uses
udevadm monitor (shows connection of the pen) and then check if the connected device is the pen…
this works and i can now use the top button!
if someone wants to use my solution u need to add a service with the following:
[Unit]
Description=active-pen2 top-button
After=graphical-session-pre.target
After=auto-rotate.service
Wants=graphical-session-pre.target
[Service]
Environment=DISPLAY=:0
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/pathTo/active-pen2
Restart=on-failure
SuccessExitStatus=3 4
RestartForceExitStatus=3 4
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
and the activePen2 file should contain
#!/bin/sh
DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY
SERVICE="xournalpp"
udevadm monitor | while read -r line
do
if [[ $line == "KERNEL"*"add"*"hci0:3585"*"bluetooth"* ]]; then
if pgrep -x "$SERVICE" >/dev/null
then
#xournal is running wannt to open the sidebar in xournal(shortcute f12)
xte "key F12"
else
#xournal not running open it now
sudo -u felix_j xournalpp &>/dev/null &
fi
fi
done
exit 0
if you have a cleaner solution using udev pls comment !
my udev rule to test if my pen would raise a add action was
ACTION=“add”, RUN+=“sudo -u felix_j xournalpp &>/dev/null &”
this would work if connecting a usb device or headphones but not with the active pen2 top button
Best reagards
