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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by freedomben on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:39PM (#23284336)
I bought a Wacom tablet to use with Krita and have been totally unable to figure out how to make it work. Every tutorial/video out there is for Windows and most of the settings that affect Krita are done in a windows setting area. I use Fedora/Gnome and don't have access to that level of settings (tho there are some settings available through Gnome via libwacom, which itself is awesome).

Anyone using Krita with a Wacom tablet under Linux? How do you draw?

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by raghukamath on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:22PM (#23284710)
Yes I am using Krita with wacom on Linux. On linux wacom and most other tablets are just plug and play. They just work. krita is just a click away from the software center.
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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by freedomben on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:30PM (#23285222)
How did you configure Krita? I see almost nothing in the "tablet settings" section besides pressure. When Krita has focus and I draw on the tablet, it does nothing. Every other app treats the tablet like a mouse.
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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by mcjiggerlog on Sunday May 24, 2020 @09:17AM (#23291284)
Every other app treating the tablet like a mouse is the normal and desired behaviour. As others said, Wacom tablets on linux should just be plug and play. I literally just plug it in, open krita and start drawing. Big difference from the literally hours I spent on macOS trying to find the right drivers for this older model.

I would add that I did have some issues with the Flatpak version of Krita where the tablet didn't draw as expected. Replacing it with the standard deb from apt repositories fixed that though.

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by willismichael on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:57PM (#23286890)
On Linux I didn't have to do anything other than plug in the Wacom tablet, launch Krita, and start drawing.

This page of the Krita manual has some troubleshooting suggestions specifically for Windows: https://docs.krita.org/fr/user_manual/drawing_tablets.html

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by ur-whale on Saturday May 23, 2020 @04:30PM (#23286130)
Go in the system settings, there's usually a section dedicated to tablets.
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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by verroq on Saturday May 23, 2020 @12:50PM (#23284420)
On Arch I’ve installed the Wacom drivers as outlined in the Arch Wiki as it just works.
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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by freedomben on Saturday May 23, 2020 @01:19PM (#23284680)
Have you tried it with Krita? It "just works" on all other apps I've tried it with (it behaves like a mouse), but Krita is doing something different. It completely ignores the wacom when focus is on the Krita window.
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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by verroq on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:46PM (#23285363)
Yes Krita, pressure etc all work properly. You can check the wiki and the troubleshooting steps will apply all Linux not just Arch.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom_tablet

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Re:First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store by freedomben on Saturday May 23, 2020 @02:57PM (#23285437)
Cool, thanks I'll give that a try
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