libwacom

libwacom is a tablet description library (by linuxwacom)

Libwacom Alternatives

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libwacom reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of libwacom. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-26.
  • How to get your Wacom pen working on a ThinkPad X380 Yoga
    1 project | /r/LinuxOnThinkpad | 14 Nov 2022
  • Yoga 6 13ALC7 Stylus
    1 project | /r/stylus | 8 Sep 2022
    The 13ALC6 has tilt, so it's very likely the 13ALC7 does, too. But, like you said, that's not direct information. Check your digitizer on Device Manager > Human Interface Devices > HID Touchscreen or HID Pen. If the hardware ID is 52xx (for example 52a2) it's probably AES 2.0.
  • Pen for Lenovo Yoga 7 14ITL5
    1 project | /r/stylus | 31 Aug 2022
    You can check Device Manager and see if the four-character Hardware ID of your HID Pen or HID Touchscreen devices (under Human Interface Devices) match any of the hardware IDs on the list at libwacom, or you could borrow an AES-2.0-only pen and see if it works.
  • Is "Lenovo Digital Pen 2" wacom aes? USI? other?
    1 project | /r/stylus | 17 Aug 2022
    Good question! Technically yes, you can compare the "HID Touchscreen" or "HID Pen" Device ID in Device Manager to the list on libwacom which is an open-source project that helpfully lists lots of digitizers. If it says "Sensor Type: AES", "Features: Touch (Integrated), Tilt", it's AES 2.0 (because 1.0 doesn't have tilt).
  • I see people hyping wacom, but YSK that Huion tablets work on mainline without any additional kernel modules
    1 project | /r/linuxhardware | 22 Apr 2022
    The same ID 256c:006d as yours -> https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom/issues/469
  • Plasma Wayland and graphic tablets?
    1 project | /r/kde | 6 Apr 2022
    The name is wacom because wacom was the originator, but I think that it will work with other manufacturers if it is listed inlibwacom.
  • Lenovo Precision Pen 2
    1 project | /r/stylus | 1 Dec 2021
    Technically you can look at the 4-hex-digit hardware ID of the pen digitizer in Device Manager and then look it up in libwacom, but obviously that's not how it's supposed to be. Wacom (and Microsoft) doesn't publish the version of their digitizers anywhere so it's always a game of test-which-pens-work-on-it.
  • 2in1 Laptop tablet mode and stylus
    3 projects | /r/pop_os | 26 Aug 2021
    So, for instance, I should be able to see the stylus in the Wacom section in the Settings but don't because I assume it's yet to have been added to the libwacom database. At least that's what I understand based on what I've read so far on it. My next step is to see if I can get it to work based on this.
  • Graphics Tablet
    2 projects | /r/linuxmint | 16 Aug 2021
    This issue and its workaround is described at https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom/issues/281. Briefly, you'll need to edit the libwacom tablet definition for your tablet, adding 0xffffe to the end one of the lines. After saving the changes you should be able to open the Graphics Tablet settings without it crashing.
  • Wacom Tablet that works out of the box?
    2 projects | /r/Ubuntu | 24 Jun 2021
    Check this. If it's listed here and entered about a year ago or more, then it's pretty much guaranteed to work out of the box and be configurable in the GNOME settings.
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