Jack Wallen reviews the bq Aquaris M10 tablet and he’s impressed. If you’ve been on the fence about Ubuntu Touch, this might just assuage those unpleasant feelings.
Source: Magic happens with the Ubuntu tablet - TechRepublic
Canonical tried to do this with their last attempt to crowdsource their Ubuntu phone, but it didn’t make enough money. This one looks pretty good too. Now I wonder if I could run Android apps on there too. :D
You may recall in my earlier post that I mentioned the GfxTablet project but complained that there was no support for left-handed users, but I just discovered something.
Under Xfce the configuration for Mouse and Touchpad:
Inside the configuration applet, you get to see all the input devices available on your system. On my system, I have the touchpad set as left-handed, because I prefer to work with my mouse buttons swapped (as I’m left-handed).
However, what you notice is that “Network Tablet” shows up on this list when the service is running:
So, select that, and:
Lo and behold, the Network Tablet is configured as right-handed. Which means that even though my touchpad is configured as left-handed, I can freely use my Android tablet as a graphics tablet without the annoying button switching I had to do before.
Now, I found this in Fedora, but it might also work under Xubuntu.
GfxTablet (Graphic Tablet) is a project that consists of two parts – one is Linux input driver, and the other is an Android app. It turns your Android device into a graphics tablet and you can control your Linux machine with your tablet. There is no screen output on the android device and stylus/finger motion is transmitted to the Linux box.
The only downside is there’s no option for “lefty” mode for people like me. :(
It will be interesting to see how well I can use this.
