OpenTabletDriver Alternatives

OpenTabletDriver reviews and mentions

• Debian KDE: Right Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2024

  Why didn't the author use opentabletdriver, it would have fixed most issues he had with the graphic tablets. It works on Wayland too.

  https://opentabletdriver.net/

• OpenTablet Driver guide for Huion Kamvas 24 4k on windows 10 (but maybe other tablets too) in particular for painting
  3 projects | /r/huion | 9 Nov 2023

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

• Krita fund has 0 corporate support
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023

  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.

  ----

  > 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.

• Review: Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023

  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.

• Outdated tablet. Which driver if any can I use with my MacBook Pro?
  1 project | /r/wacom | 10 Jul 2023

  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/)

• drawing apps/creative apps and good distro
  1 project | /r/linux | 9 Jul 2023

  Use OpenTabletDriver, you might have better luck.

• Pixel painters - Drawing tablet
  1 project | /r/hypixel | 3 Jul 2023

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

• Trouble connecting older Pen Tablet on Windows 10. CTE-630BT
  1 project | /r/wacom | 25 Jun 2023

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

• linux drivers : XP-Pen oem -vs- DIGImend -vs- OpenTabletDriver
  2 projects | /r/XPpen | 19 Jun 2023

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

• Intuos 4 (PTK-640) and Windows 11, 'your Wacom device is no longer supported'
  1 project | /r/wacom | 17 Jun 2023

  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.

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