Knuts blogg » Wacom http://knut.sandvik.bz Technoscience Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:42:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Getting Wacom drawing tablets to work in Linux http://knut.sandvik.bz/2007/11/08/getting-wacom-drawing-tablets-to-work-in-linux http://knut.sandvik.bz/2007/11/08/getting-wacom-drawing-tablets-to-work-in-linux#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:12:38 +0000 knut http://knut.sandvik.bz/2007/11/08/getting-wacom-drawing-tablets-to-work-in-linux index_fig01.jpgI got a Wacom tablet for my birthday. It’s ideal for making drawings with my PC. It’s easy to setup and I get good results from what I do. Off course I am no artist so it’s nothing fancy. It’s much easier to use a tablet than to draw or retouch with the mouse.

I have gotten the tablet to work in Windows and on my Mac, but I have had trouble getting it to work well in Linux. The problem is that the drawing area on the tablet is only a small portion of the drawing in my preferred applications. The GIMP and Inkscape. I haven’t found any solutions for the problem until I read this article in Linux.com. Now it seems to be a way for me to use Linux also for drawing and retouching.

Here is one of the drawings I have made with my tablet.

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