Hi ... please help

I just wanted to start using Krita on Linux for first time, was excited then very disappointed to see there was No tablet settings.
I'm sure there should be more settings here right? Maybe Krita is not detecting my Wacom Intous Pro tablet? Kubuntu detect fine, just has the buttons all mixed up ...



Running Kubuntu 20.04 ... Krita 4.4.1 ...
Operating System: Kubuntu 20.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel Version: 5.4.0-58-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz
Memory: 7,7 GiB of RAM

No, there don't need to be more options there; the curve is all that's needed. You can use the tablet tester dialog to make sure your tablet is correctly connected. The other window you show is the plasma-wide tablet settings dialog, that doesn't need to be replicated in Krita.

I've also never seen a Linux system where a wacom tablet didn't work out of the box, so I would be really surprised if it didn't work.

boudewijn wrote:No, there don't need to be more options there; the curve is all that's needed. You can use the tablet tester dialog to make sure your tablet is correctly connected. The other window you show is the plasma-wide tablet settings dialog, that doesn't need to be replicated in Krita.

I've also never seen a Linux system where a wacom tablet didn't work out of the box, so I would be really surprised if it didn't work.

Really, I'm surprised, I thought there would be more settings, guess i was wrong.

Problem is, the KDE tablet settings isnt working properly, the tablet buttons mapping is all mixed up and cant find a way to map them to the right button on my tablet.

Also, a bigger problem is, in the KDE desktop environment, I had to choose "rotate tablet upside down" as I'm left handed user and my buttons are on the right hand side, thus the stylus cursor goes in wrong direction if I dont choose that.
BUT, in Krita, it ignores the KDE tablet setting, and my stylus button is going in the wrong direction, and i cant find any setting to fix it!
I remember a while back when I tried Krita in Linux, I got it to work perfectly ... now I'm clueless how to fix this!

Again, that works for me. I've got a bunch of wacom tablets, and they all work with the wacom tablet kcm (with some issues here and there, but nothing too weird). In the end, this isn't an issue with Krita, so Krita cannot offer any workaround configurations.

boudewijn wrote:Again, that works for me. I've got a bunch of wacom tablets, and they all work with the wacom tablet kcm (with some issues here and there, but nothing too weird). In the end, this isn't an issue with Krita, so Krita cannot offer any workaround configurations.

seriously, because you dont have a problem via krita and wacom, means there isnt a problem with krita and wacom? Gee thanks for you non help assistance!

Gosh... Yes, there are no serious problems with linux and wacom tablets. I should know: I've been working with and on Linux and Wacom tablets and Krita since 2003. There just aren't any really big problems. I don't know what you have done to your system, but out of the box everything works. Period and full stop. And, as I said, there is nothing related to Krita when it comes to supporting tablets on Linux: that's all in lower parts of the stack, like Qt, xinput or libinput and the kernel drivers.

You can try to ask other Linux users on krita-artists.org since that place is much more lively than here. However if you're going to be grumpy, you probably won't get much assistance there, either.

In any case, Krita just reads tablet events that the system sends it. Note that the rest of your user space programs probably doesn't read the tablet events at all but only the simulated mouse events (I would suggest checking programs like Gimp and MyPaint to see if this problem is present in other tablet-sensitive programs, too - and while being in them, check their tablet options, too - they have the pressure curve and on/off for a device, and that's it). It's the driver's responsibility to do stuff like rotating the tablet space; Krita uses raw tablet events that should come correct straight from the driver, Krita doesn't try to change or "fix" them in any way (except for the pressure, which is something that is present in every brush preset too, anyway).

You can try using an appimage (if you haven't yet) and reinstalling the driver to see if it helps.