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      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="wacom-mode">

  <info>
    <revision pkgversion="3.33" date="2019-07-21" status="candidate"/>
    <revision version="gnome:42" status="final" date="2022-04-02"/>

    <link type="guide" xref="wacom"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2012</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Switch the tablet between tablet mode and mouse mode.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Set the Wacom tablet’s tracking mode</title>

<p><gui>Tablet Mode</gui> determines how the stylus is mapped to the screen.</p>

<steps>
  <item>
    <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui>
    overview and start typing <gui>Wacom Tablet</gui>.</p>
  </item>
  <item>
    <p>Click on <gui>Wacom Tablet</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    <note style="tip"><p>If no tablet is detected, you’ll be asked to
    <gui>Please plug in or turn on your Wacom tablet</gui>. Click
    <gui>Bluetooth</gui> in the sidebar to connect a wireless tablet.</p></note>
  </item>
  <item>
    <p>Choose between tablet (or absolute) mode and touchpad (or relative)
    mode. For tablet mode, switch <gui>Tablet Mode</gui> to on.</p>
  </item>
</steps>

  <note style="info"><p>In <em>absolute</em> mode, each point on the tablet maps
  to a point on the screen. The top left corner of the screen, for instance,
  always corresponds to the same point on the tablet.</p>
  <p>In <em>relative</em> mode, if you lift the stylus off the tablet and put it
  down in a different position, the pointer on the screen doesn’t move. This is
  the way a mouse operates.</p>
  </note>

</page>
