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I cleared my AUR download cache and reinstalled the package and no longer get timeout errors. Thank you!

Hey @Rodancoci,

I don't know about colon syntax, and it didn't work for me in the PKGBUILD. Though, adding https has fixed it for me.

If, still, there is a problem, please let me know.

Recently I've been getting a timeout error when doing system updates:

error: timed out looking for devel update: git://github.com/rfc2822/GfxTablet.git

I think this is because the PKGBUILD source should be

git://github.com:rfc2822/GfxTablet.git

Node the us of a colon instead of forward slash after github.com When trying to manually clone the repo with the slash git times out. Not so with the colon.

@sergej you are right. Though gfxtablet is unmaintained for some time, I made the change.

I guess it would be better to use input group instead of wheel.

@Lucki thanks, it works. Also if it is ok for you, I added you as co-maintainer.

There's a PR to make this work with libinput. Forum Post

You can merge this locally in the prepare function:

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6604df1..dd28cb1 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -2,18 +2,16 @@

 pkgname=gfxtablet-git
 pkgver=47.54140b9
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Android app to control a virtual Network Tablet on Linux"
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
 url="http://github.com/rfc2822/GfxTablet"
 license=('MIT')
 makedepends=('git')
 source=("$pkgname"::'git://github.com/rfc2822/GfxTablet.git'
-        '99-uinput.rules'
-        '30-gfxtablet.conf')
+        '99-uinput.rules')
 md5sums=('SKIP'
-         'b5d5b8e5291c08302a7a6dff8aa1ebf2'
-         '18dd86149d20dfcda9dc65bc9a03d419')
+         'b5d5b8e5291c08302a7a6dff8aa1ebf2')
 install="${pkgname}.install"

 pkgver() {
@@ -21,6 +19,13 @@ pkgver() {
    printf "%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
 }

+prepare() {
+   cd "$pkgname"
+   git remote add tonyg https://github.com/tonyg/GfxTablet.git || _r=$?
+   git fetch tonyg
+   git -c user.email="your@email.com" -c user.name="Your Name" merge -s recursive -Xours tonyg/master
+}
+
 build() {
    cd "$pkgname/driver-uinput"
    make
@@ -29,6 +34,5 @@ build() {
 package() {
    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/$pkgname/driver-uinput/networktablet" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/networktablet"
    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/99-uinput.rules" "$pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d/99-uinput.rules"
-   install -Dm644 "$srcdir/30-gfxtablet.conf" "$pkgdir/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-gfxtablet.conf"
-    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$pkgname/LICENSE.md" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
+   install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$pkgname/LICENSE.md" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
 }

With the change to libinput this doesn't work right ootb. You'll need a configuration in /etx/X11/xorg.conf.d/ with this content:

Section "InputClass"
       Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
       MatchIsTablet "on"
       MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
       Driver "evdev"
EndSection

More here: https://forums.bitfire.at/topic/1353/gfxtablet-and-libinput

colinkeenan, I noticed your comment on 'running as root' now. Install script now creates an uinput group. Any user in 'uinput' may run. You have to remove and install again though, since upgrade script does nothing.

After messing around with port forwarding and still not working, I finally tried entering the number to my computer instead of the host name. That worked. I deleted the port forwarding rule and it still works. Port forwarding isn't necessary when both devices are on the same network. My mistake was in thinking I could enter the host as 'colin' instead of '192.168.1.7' because 'colin' works with ssh but not with this application.