Drawing tablets that work with Porteus?

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beifang
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Drawing tablets that work with Porteus?

Post#1 by beifang » 15 Dec 2023, 15:24

I'm trying to figure out if any drawing tablets actually work out of the box with Porteus. I want to use it with the art software like Krita, GIMP or Inkscape.
It seems some models are compatible with Linux, just like this pctechtest.com/20-best-drawing-tablets-for-beginners
Are there any artists here who work with drawing tablets? what would you recommend? can you control all the features of the tablet? (pressure, buttons...)

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Drawing tablets that work with Porteus?

Post#2 by rych » 16 Dec 2023, 09:04

My Wacom tablet works plug-n-play on Porteus, with pressure sensitivity in all relevant software I tested: Gimp etc. I also have this script to set-up buttons for convenience when working in Xournal++ for example:

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#!/usr/bin/bash
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/183354/configuring-wacom-tablet-buttons-and-options

#xsetwacom --list devices
#xsetwacom --list parameters

#xev | grep button
#A small window appears, hover your tablet pointing device in the square, and push a button
#The button name will be output on the terminal.

xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos BT S Pad pad" Button 1 key ctrl z
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos BT S Pad pad" Button 2 key shift ctrl t
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos BT S Pad pad" Button 3 key shift ctrl p
xsetwacom set "Wacom Intuos BT S Pad pad" Button 8 key ctrl y

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