Disable Wacom Finger Touch in Ubuntu 16.04.3

I've reinstalled my system and what used to be 16.04.1 is now 16.04.3.

Before the reinstall, I disabled the Wacom Touch using the following script:

WACOM_TOUCH=`xinput --list --short | grep -m1 "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 4x5 Finger touch" | cut -f2 | cut -d= -f2`
xsetwacom --set "$WACOM_TOUCH" Touch off

After installing 16.04.3, it doesn't work anymore because Finger touch is renamed to Pad pad:

$ xsetwacom --list devices
Wacom Bamboo 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus id: 8 type: STYLUS
Wacom Bamboo 2FG 4x5 Pad pad id: 10 type: PAD
Wacom Bamboo 2FG 4x5 Pen eraser id: 14 type: ERASER 

However, even when I disable Touch on Pad pad, touch is still enabled and I keep accidentally firing touch events. In fact, I can disable them for all devices, without an error thrown:

$ xsetwacom --set 10 Touch off
$ xsetwacom --set 8 Touch off
$ xsetwacom --set 14 Touch off

Touch just doesn't turn off.

Is anything else changed? How do I turn off touch?


Some logs

$ cat /var/log/syslog | grep wacom
wacom 0003:056A:00D1.0007: hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTH-460] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.1/input0
wacom 0003:056A:00D1.0008: hidraw1: USB HID v1.00 Device [Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTH-460] on usb-0000:00:14.0-3.1/input1

2 Answers

I shall note that there is at least in Xubuntu this 'Mouse and Touchpad' window in which you can disable Wacom touch Finger. It was a lifesaver for me :)

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In my case, I got followings:

$ xsetwacom --list devices
Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen stylus id: 11 type: STYLUS
Wacom Intuos Pro M Pad pad id: 12 type: PAD
Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch id: 13 type: TOUCH
Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen eraser id: 14 type: ERASER
Wacom Intuos Pro M Pen cursor id: 15 type: CURSOR 

I can get the current vaule with the following:

$ xsetwacom --get "Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch" Touch
on

Disable the finger touch:

$ xsetwacom --set "Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch" Touch off

Confirm:

$ xsetwacom --get "Wacom Intuos Pro M Finger touch" Touch
off
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