Wacom pen&tablet, multimonitor, plasma 6 and Wayland: usable together?

[marcatore]

Hi,
I’ve updated my Neon on latest updates and, ignoring the problems I had like most of the others, I’d like to ask if someone else here is using with success pens like Wacom with PLasma 6, Wayland and multi monitor setup.
The main problem I have is that I can’t use the pen in both monitor but, as driver settings, I can just choose which monitor is the target for pen working.
On X11 I can use it without any problems.

Anyone else experienced this problem on Wayland?

If someone would ask me if Wayland on Plasma 5 was fine, I can answer that I’ve never tried before, so I can’t report nothing on this.

Thank you very much for any kind of helping on this.

[Echoa]

@marcatore

The main problem I have is that I can’t use the pen in both monitor but, as driver settings, I can just choose which monitor is the target for pen working.
On X11 I can use it without any problems.

Just to clarify, are you trying to use the pen on on both displays or having trouble setting the display the pen targets?

[marcatore]

I’d like to use the pen on both display.
Consider that I use the pen as substitute of the mouse (mouse that still connected, just as backup)

[nicolasfella]

Currently the table is always mapped to one monitor. The ability to use it for all monitors at the same time will likely come with Plasma 6.1, see Add option to map tablet to full desktop area. (!1216) · Merge requests · Plasma / Plasma Desktop · GitLab

[marcatore]

Great. Thank you.
So I’ll wait 6.1 to use Wayland.

[marcatore]

Just to make a note… is there a roadmap where I can see a rough timeline for the new releases?
Or are you aware when it will be (roughly)?

[El_Trilo]

You have a release schedule here Schedules - KDE Community Wiki

[marcatore]

Thank you very much…so, more or less…at mid June.

[SolidCapo]

Already testing Plasma 6.1 and saw the commit, but seems to be closed, what does that mean? that it will be for Plasma 6.2 or something like that? or that it couldn’t be done?

[redstrate]

I was late in rebasing it, and since it adds new strings it had to be pushed to 6.2

[SolidCapo]

oh ok…thanks for the answer, and for now, i’m kinda getting used to change the cursor with mouse or pad to the monitor i want to use my pen,

Oh and also…there are a lot of other issues i’ve been discovering with wacom tablets, could you check too this post please?

Wacom drivers not working in Plasma 6

You are correct @nicolasfella I’m already on X11 cause there’s a lot of issues on Wayland for 3d art software and also pen tablets in which i work on…so, hope it really gets solved soon, thanks both of you, thought it was something faster to solve…or maybe I had something wrong… And this is my PC: Operating System: EndeavourOS KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.8.1-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 8 × Intel® Core…

[redstrate]

Sure thing, one sec

[marcatore]

Not a great issue…I’ll wait for 6.2
Actually I was checking some days ago and I was limited to the 1 monitor…
I’ll wait… also because I’ve seen that with Wayland I still get flashing when using Steam…so I’ll wait using Wayland.

[SolidCapo]

Yeap, i’m so eager to use Wayland, but still a lot of issues, anyway, i use it from time to time to report bugs hoping they’ll solve them

[SolidCapo]

Thanks! tomorrow i’ll answer there

[marcatore]

Updated Plasma to 6.3 and tested the new promising features to manage graphic pen and tablet with multi monitor setup… but…
…I can’t really setup it as I can’t move the portion of the tablet area to match with the 2 monitor.

Actually, this is what I see in the settings.

and this is what I should seen (as visibile in the landing page of the Plasma 6.3 release webpage)

The name of the device should be visible also when just one graphic pen&tablet is connected?

Anyone with this setup could test if everything is like in the official plasma video?
Thanks in advance.
What should I try to make it working?
Meanwhile I have to go back to X11.

[Duha]

@marcatore

The name of the device should be visible also when just one graphic pen&tablet is connected?

Afaik only when you have multiple devices connected.

What distro are you using?

@marcatore

…I can’t really setup it as I can’t move the portion of the tablet area to match with the 2 monitor.

Unfortunately I only have a single monitor so I cannot check. @redstrate do you know how it is supposed to behave with multiple monitors?

[redstrate]

@Duha

Afaik only when you have multiple devices connected.

Correct, it only shows when multiple devices are connected. At some point we want to show it regardless, but not sure about how that would look yet.

@Duha

Unfortunately I only have a single monitor so I cannot check. @redstrate do you know how it is supposed to behave with multiple monitors?

It looks like something is really broken there (the tablet is reporting itself as 0x0 size which is… wrong) I don’t know what the problem could be until I have some more information.

[Duha]

@redstrate

It looks like something is really broken there (the tablet is reporting itself as 0x0 size which is… wrong) I don’t know what the problem could be until I have some more information.

Seems like this a neon issue and has nothing to do with multiple monitors. I can replicate with a neon live usb. Possibly the libinput version too low?

[marcatore]

@Duha and @redstrate
I’m on KDE Neon. (now I revert to X11 but the test was on wayland…obviously)

About the fact that it’s not visible the graphic pen&tablet device name when it’s the only connected I think it’s fine…I was asking just to be sure that everything was ok.