Re: Wacom pens with rotation supported ?

Olivier <olecarme@xxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 17 May 2012 08:46:51 +0200

2012/5/16 Gwenouille <forums@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>Did you select one of the components of the tablet, in the list on the
>>left? This list mentions the various peripherals. For example, for me
>>it contains four entries for the Wacom tablet. If I select one of
>>them, all entries under Axes specify a number.
>
> Yes i did, in fact there are 3 entries:
> Core pointer (my mouse)
> Wacom Tablet Eraser
> Wacom Tablet Pressure Stylus
>
> Doesn't matter if i start Gimp with the mouse, stylus, airbrush... I get these 3.

> Notice that the airbrush isn't in there. But both the Eraser and Stylus have a "Roulette:rien" line under the "Axes" table

> I guess i should find some "WACOM Tablet Airbrush" line on the left for the airbrush ? And choosing that would lead to having a "Roulette" entry under the "Axes" table ? So does it mean that the driver isn't presenting the full array of available pens to GIMP ?

>>Probably because you are looking at your mouse or something else?
> Well, i am surely looking at the stylus, but not at the mouse, that's for sure. In fact I choose "Eraser" or "Stylus" to get to see that list with the wheel.

Clearly the Wacom support on Windows is inadequate. Whether it's
GIMP's or Windows' or GTK+'s fault, I don't know, but the GIMP
developers certainly know. Look at the two different states of the
Input Devices dialog I attach to this message.

The various Wacom pens are not specifically detected by the input
device support, since when I took the two attached sceenshots, I was
not even using the tablet. And the Wheel line is present for all Wacom
components, including the eraser, the cursor (i.e., the Wacom mouse),
and the pad.

>>Try the last version, 12.04. I hate the Unity environment, but you may
>>like it, or change to Gnome 3 or even something similar to Gnome 2.
> Understood ! In fact i already have an old Ubuntu Karmic Koala somewhere on another hard drive. I'll boot on that later.

That's a version of Ubuntu much too old. GIMP 2.8 does not work with
11.04, and I understand that having it to work with 11.10 needs a
little preliminary work. With 12.04, it's directly accessible via
apt-get or similar tools.

>>And we can continue this conversation privately in French.
> Well, why not, but since this info might help someone else on the forum, I don't mind carrying on in English.

As you like.
-- 
Olivier Lecarme