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WACOM Tablet in Dual-Monitor Ubuntu System

While I have a couple of monitors lying around, only recently do I play around with them, hooking an extra LCD monitor to my laptop. Though Ubuntu handles this arrangement without a hitch, a small problem is the mapping from graphic tablet to the screen. By default, full 8:5 tablet area will be mapped to the whole 32:9 (double widescreen) desktop, which skews cursor movement and makes sketching/painting difficult.

With a bit of reading manpages and trying out tools provided with Wacom driver, I found xsetwacom lets me get what I want: the usual 1:1 tablet-to-screen coordinate mapping in a multi-monitor GNU/Linux system. I haven't found any GUI-based application, though, so the following procedures are strictly terminal-bound.

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