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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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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.

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.

Go in the system settings, there's usually a section dedicated to tablets.

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

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.

On Arch I’ve installed the Wacom drivers as outlined in the Arch Wiki as it just works.

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.

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

Cool, thanks I'll give that a try

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