OpenTabletDriver VS wine-discord-ipc-bridge

First follow the installation guide on https://opentabletdriver.net/

I don't have a huge amount of experience with Krita's Wayland performance because the situation on Wayland is still sub-optimal for art in general. Tablet support has gotten much better, but configuration per-app or tied to the desktop environment still seems to be a big issue. The idea that my tablet configuration might stop working if I switch off of a desktop environment is kind of a non-starter to me. It stinks because I really want to use Wayland, but even as recently as a month ago I tried to see if I could make the switch and couldn't.

Truthfully, if someone has a lot of money to dump around, devoting a few full-time developers or dropping cash on https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver would probably go a long way towards encouraging Wayland adoption from artists.

As far as I can tell the issue is not that Wayland can't do tablet control on the same level as X11, it's that the tools built around those capabilities still seem immature. OpenTabletDriver looks very promising but seems to have limited device support, limited in no small part by what tablets the devs have access to (my Cintiq 32 is unlikely to get added any time soon because it is no longer being sold and was expensive and uncommon when it was on the market).

The NVIDIA situation is also a problem, but there's nothing anyone can do about that other than yell at NVIDIA more.

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> The text tool is a joke.

The text tool should see considerable improvement soon; the entire text engine got rewritten in the last release, the devs just only had time to get it to feature parity with the existing tools.

I believe Wacom is a first class citizen in Linux. They have it in the kernel (https://linuxwacom.github.io/). There is also https://opentabletdriver.net/ that is multi-platform.

If the Wacom driver is no longer compatible with your system, you might want to consider using a third party driver like OTD (https://opentabletdriver.net/)

Use OpenTabletDriver, you might have better luck.

One of these programs is called OpenTabletDriver and can be found here

You might give OpenTabletDriver a try, it seems like it supports that particular tablet according to their list of supported tablets.

- DIGImend and OpenTabletDriver look pretty similar in github activity(?)

You can try OpenTabletDriver, a 3rd party open source tablet driver, with support for your tablet. It has many different smoothing algoritms and filters and much more customisability than Wacom drivers, as well as pressure support.

The CD is for driver installation, however you don't need it. Drivers used to come on CDs. For Linux, you have two options, both third party: OpenTabletDriver or linuxwacom. For Windows, you might be able to find an older driver version in the archives on Wacom's website, since newer drivers dropped support for it (thanks, Wacom) or you can once again use OpenTabletDriver. Personally, I recommend using OpenTabletDriver for both operating systems. It's much more customisable, gives you higher hover height, allows for more pen compatibility and more.

The fact that the deck runs on Linux only affects one tiny feature: the union terminal does not function. Joining the union requires Discord rich presence to recognize that you are in-game, and that does not function properly with Proton, which is the compatibility layer used to run the game. So, your friend could join the discord server, but won't be able to access any of the union features unless they try a work-around: https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge This is such a minor feature though, that they don't need to worry about bothering with this unless they really, really want to. This will not affect your ability to play together, one way or the other.

https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge You can try this and see if that takes care of the problem.

ive been trying to install wine discord ipc bridge for the past 2 days but the compiler thats needed to install it takes up more space than the var-a partition (/var directory) actually has, and i cant figure out how to resize it or free up space in it

For linux, you can use https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge to access the union (thanks to neijr for this !)

This https://github.com/mellowagain/rpc-wine no longer works because Discord Rich Presence no longer uses discord-rpc.dll. And while https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge works, it's annoying to have to go ALL the way to the .exe and start it for every single application I want to run; it only supports one at a time and closes itself when the application stops sending RPC. I can make it run along side Steam games fine to alleviate this annoyance, but for non-Steam games I am SOL because .desktop files only support a single system command, which can only contain one application at a time, but since I'd need to run two at a time to make it cleanly work with my non-Steam games, I would need to manually run it for any non-Steam game, making this .exe solution also not viable to CLEANLY solve this issue.

To enable Discord RPC, you'll need to download this "https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge", Download "Source Code (zip)", and "winediscordicpbridge.exe".

I have a game that needs me to use PROTON_USE_WINED3D=1 %command% -novid in order to work. However to get Rich Presence using this but if I try adding it before the launch argument with &&, the game won't launch. However I looked it up on Google and it told me that different arguments are separated by a space. This was apparently a lie, because no dice; simply having the path to the .sh file at the beginning with no && also did not work.

this worked for me https://github.com/0e4ef622/wine-discord-ipc-bridge