Can’t see the drawing tablet settings in KDE 6.3

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New KDE came out today on fedora,
got excited to try out the new drawing tablet settings, but they’re not anywhere in the system settings. I tried searching for it too, but it didn’t show up.

The option’s just not there.

I can use open tablet driver, but it’s janky, and the default driver in the kernel works better so i was disappointed to not see the promised new feature.

Even without opentabletdriver installed, pressure sensitivity works in krita, so I know that the tablet’s being recognised, but i’d love to be able to set my tablet’s buttons up with the new KDE setting.

Any ideas what’s going on?

It’s a Huion Inspiroy H640P, getting a bit old now, but it works. it’s a shame that huion only makes drivers for GNOME, can’t seem to get their official drivers working in KDE.

i’ve tried both x11 and wayland

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Are you sure to use 6.3 ? Your screenfetch doesn’t say (use kinfo) or says X11/Wayland.
I am asking because Plasma 6.3 is in testing in fedora 40 and 41.
Are you using testing ?

It’s a Huion Inspiroy H640P, getting a bit old now, but it works. it’s a shame that huion only makes drivers for GNOME, can’t seem to get their official drivers working in KDE.

There is no driver per-DE, that would be pointless, only support by the the DE for certain features. Might depend on X11 that had old drivers vs Wayland that uses libinput as HAL.

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I believe i’m just using a vanilla Fedora KDE install? it showed up as a system update today in the discovery app and so i installed it.

kinfo says this:

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.11-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90GHz
Memory: 31.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER

And here’s a picture of the “about this system” option in the system settings:

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I should reiterate, that i have looked for the drawing tablet settings in both X11 and in Wayland considering they are both installed, and the drawing tablet settings show up in neither.

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as far as i’m aware, the setting should show up here:

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I can’t add much, but I do not have a tablet at all, and it shows in System Settings for me, on a different distro:

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And yes, mine still calls itself “6.2” lol

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Awhh man… maybe i should just switch to Neon… Heheheh… :upside_down_face:

( fedora’s pretty good tho! )

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Could it be a distro packaging issue for fedora KDE ?

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That is my guess.

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Just report the issue to fedora that should be fixed easily.

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Okiedokie, i’ll go poke the fedora forum, thank you for your advice :slight_smile:

In the meantime, is there perhaps anything i could check or reinstall to maybe try to fix it for my self? I imagine a hotfix might take a while even if it is a bug.

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Do you know anything about compiling code, or building rpm packages ?

A fix for this is easy for them to implement and will get pushed fast I imagine, just a few days if not less.

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Wellp, i went over to the fedora forums and they didn’t know why the option wasn’t there either.

I reinstalled fedora with KDE from scratch and now the drawing tablet option is there. Must have just been one of those weird things.

Oh well. problem solved, i guess.

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Or was missing a reboot after upgrade perhaps.

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I am facing similar issue in Manjaro KDE :frowning:

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Look up the package “wacomtablet” and it will add the function back into system settings after installation, at least it did for me (using the Pro M for like a decade now, so i definitely like having an alternative to xset)

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To reiterate, X11 needs wacomtablet as its a completely separate KCM