I just got my tablet today, downloaded the drivers and installed them. Then restarted the PC. The buttons and dials all work with the proprietary drivers, but the Pen refuses to work as anything other than a mouse when a drawing app or window is involved. On the "Test settings" part of the Graphics Tablets settings, pen and pressure work. But on any other art program it's not interacting at all.
Same thing with OpenTabletDriver.
I found out that the pen and pressure do work with both drivers through a test. If I bring the mouse into the canvas as a brush and move it, then I put draw with my stylus, then I can draw with the tablet, pen pressure and all working. Though if I stop, I have to repeat the process. Some apps allowed me to test the tablet, and their log showed me that the stylus input isn't recognized unless I bring the mouse in the drawing area and move it, while testing my pen to draw. It's either the mouse input gets recognized or the stylus one does, and the mouse input has priority.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?
I'm on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Wayland.
How my Graphics Tablets sections looks like.
I checked my Graphics Tablets sections, and by default it looks like:
Huion Kamvas 13 (Gen 3)
General Pen with no Eraser
Which doesn't work and is just a second monitor to my screen. Pen doesn't get recognized on input or proximity.
When I launch Huion's driver, it *adds* to the list:
Huion Tablet
Huion Tablet
Huion 256C PEN STYLUS **shows the same icon as previous two**
General Pen Eraser **this makes it two pens**
Or if I launch OpenTabletDriver, it would add:
OpenTabletDriver Virtual Assist Tablet
General Pen Eraser
When I launch either OpenTabletDriver or Huion's proprietary drivers, pen is finally recognized though as just a mouse unless I do the aforementioned test. Essentially, the tablet only registers a stylus input when the mouse cursor is moving.