Graphics Tablet on Linux

Art Discussion and Questions
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Oof! It was a fun little hunt to get this tablet decent under Linux with multi monitors. What I wound up having to do was after installing the Xorg OpenTabletDriver, then I have to manually start the service with “systemctl --user enable opentabletdriver.service --now”. Then after that use a program called xinput as per this document “xinput map-to-output <tablet id> <output name>”, which in-of-itself has its own quirks. The ouput id had to be quoted, “HDMI-0” and I had to wait til the opentabletdriver was loaded and select the id=16 option instead of any of the others.

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At least the tablet maps to one monitor, that will make it so so so much easier to draw with.

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What kind of tablet do you have?

I use a now rather old wacom bamboo tablet and it was basically plug and play from day one on Linux. I never got it properly running on windows, though.

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It’s an Ugee, it does kind-of work, but the generic driver will not restrict it to a monitor or to the window, nor are some of the functions usable such as pressure. So I have to go through a few more steps to get it to work. Funnily enough, the company’s driver worked on another system (I think Slackware 15.0), just not on this Fedora system.