When working on the tablet, if you need to look something up on the internet, it can be easier to write it with the stylus in hand than to shift over to the keyboard. For those who don’t know, it’s a hand-writing recognition program. I found lots of other people asking which cheaper-than-wacom tablets work well with linux, but not many good answers, so hopefully google will shepherd this first full day’s report to anyone else who needs it:Ĭellwriter works great. As far as other options, I found a month-old post by a dev from the digimend kernal drivers who says he has tilt working but not the express keys, so I figure it’s a matter of time before at least one driver source has full support. Tip: If you use KDE, you can create a window rule to “skip taskbar”, so when you minimize it, the window disappears (but to get it back, use the Alt+Tab task switcher). However, in its present incarnation, it runs as a script that requires root: Just unzip in its permanent location (I used /opt), change into the subdirectory it creates and make Pentablet_Driver.sh executable, then link to the script from your autostart settings (or use crontab if you don’t want to be pestered for root password). In other words, the buttons and dial all work. It’s in beta but works for me (on opensuse) better than advertised: Supports everything but tilt sensitivity. I just purchased an XP-Pen Artist Pro 15.6, considerably cheaper than Wacom, and I chose it over Huion because the manufactrer puts out a linux driver. For those doing the research I was doing last week:
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