Drawing with a wacom tablet
2021, Nov 17
I make schematics and simple draings using my wacom tablet.
As software, I currently use Krita.
And as drawing tool, I have my trusted Wacom Intuos Pen & Touch tablet (model CTH-690). It worls out-of-the-box on my Debian systems.
Multiscreen
It is a 16:9 tablet and that ratio fit one screen, so in my two-monitor setup, I has to be limited to one monitor only.
The process:
- Find the monitor to limit to:
xrandr
(“HDMI-1 in my case) -
Find the wacom controls to map:
xinput | grep -i Wacom
(Ids 16, 17 and 18 in my case)Note that you might need to install
xinput
-
Do the mapping:
for ID in $IDS; do xinput map-to-output $ID $MONITOR; done
For my setup:
for ID in 16 17 18; do xinput map-to-input $ID HDMI-1; done
Please note that the ID values may change.
- Redo after reboot.