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Does GIMP support art tablets like the Wacom?

April 26, 2017art GIMP support tablets Wacom

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Does GIMP support art tablets like the Wacom?

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FIXME: obsolete advice. In the more recent releases of most distros, installing the wacom-tools package should make tablet support “just work”. Make sure that you enable the input devices in GIMP, too. Otherwise, you have to do a little extra work to compile it in. See Intuos on Linux by Terry Mackintosh, or this quick overview from Juergen Schlag: • run GNU/Linux with a X11 server which supports the Xinput-Section (my old S3-Board running under the XFree-Server works well, but the XSuSE- Server for PERMEDIA2-Boards doesn’t work • install the Xinput driver for the Artpad (see the docs). I used a patched driver for the PenPartner • edit the Xinput-Section of your /etc/XF86Config to load the driver when X11 starts (see the man-pages for XF86Config and your X-server) • recompile the GTK toolkit with the Xinput-support enabled. see the README and INSTALL file for the command switch to do this. • restart your computer, start X11 and GIMP.