Hi Slacker!,

I use a Thinkpad X61s but i'm thinking and curious to buy a Thinkpad X61 Tablet and i'm searching other people that experienced with Slackware on this hw. Problem with the touchscreen/ touchscreen keys?? With the rotate function?

Might want to look here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61_Tablet

I had the X61 tablet. Mine didn't have the option to move stuff with your fingers, only the stylus. The problem with GNU is that some programs are written with KDE/QT and some with gnome, so you are not going to have something that's just KDE like I prefer. I never installed Slackware on it, but I did put Arch on it and it was running great. The tablet part not so much, since you have to configure the screen rotation and the screen orientation buttons with scripts so that they will work, even on Ubuntu.

It's been a while since I have had the tablet though. Things are always improving. As a notebook, true thinkpads (X, T) are great. I dropped this thing from a bench and no harm done, the keyboard and mouse nub are a joy to use. I would not recommend any other notebook but Lenovo Thinkpads, for anyone. As a tablet, I would recommend going Android. A thinkpad tablet just came out that uses Android and you can use either stylus or your hand. Or read the reviews for the X220t, which gets better battery life. My X61 got 4-5 hours.

Slackware have a robust XORG setup, and thats what will handle those things(input methods). I cant imagine a really bad problem that would block u from using the tablet resource in terms of the system or configuration that Slackware uses. U may not be happy with lack of features and resources in the tablet-area around KDE or even Gnome, and for medium and small desktop as Enlightenment, XFCE, LXDE,etc, even less or none.

The new Gnome 3 and KDE with the netbook layout should be pretty interesting. That activities thing in KDE should be really handy for a notebook like that, as u can switch back to normal desktop or use the netbook-activitie-thing in very friendly way.

I would definitely take that risk.

Hi everyone,

thanks for the answers or suggestions, i've read the Linux wacom project and tried to configure slackware 13.37 but i'm in a dead way, .... help!