Comments on: Tablet pressure support on OS X for X11, Gimp, and Inkscape

By: Yuri

Yuri — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:15:01 +0000

I have the problem with pen cursor offset when I’m using Inkscape 0.47 with Wacom Bamboo Fun MAC OS X Leopard. Mouse works fine, but when I’m trying to use pen with tablet there is strange offset between cursor and drawing. Tried to make various changes in Input device settings but it doesn’t help. Does anyboy have any idea how to fix it?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:22:37 +0000

Works perferct with a Genius F610

By: Aaron Ryan

Aaron Ryan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:03:32 +0000

I am having the same problem mentioned above.

It is unclear if this is an XQuartz 2.3.2.1 issue, an Inkscape 0.46 for Mac OS X issue, or some strange combination of the two.

Both the GIMP 2.6 and Inkscape 0.46 are fully operational in my openSUSE 11.1 ppc64 environment, using the linuxwacom 8.2.2 drivers.

By: Aaron Ryan

Aaron Ryan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:22:26 +0000

Yes…I am having the same issue.
Using XQuartz/X11 2.3.2.1
Leopard 10.5.6

Gimp 2.6 is working with pressure, tilt, etc.
but Inkscape 0.46 is not acknowledging any extended input devices.

Using openSUSE 11.1 Linux and the linuxwacom 8.2.2 drivers everything works well in both programs. Of course, in the Linx environment it is possible to configure the xorg.conf file to “SendCoreEvents” to both programs…this is not the case with XQuartz. I have searched but cannot find any info on how to configure it manually.

Hope XQuartz team solves this issue, would be nice to use Inkscape in OS X.

By: Christian Krupa

Christian Krupa — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:30:05 +0000

Same conditions as both Nic and Niels above with same result (intuos3 – gimp good, inkscape bad) boohoo, even tried the 2.4 beta in case, but that just seemed to break everything….

shame, used to use inkscape a lot when windows was my primary machine…

By: Nicolas Anquet

Nicolas Anquet — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:59:30 +0000

Same conditions and same results as Niels above, except that I used a brand new Bamboo tablet.

By: Niels Olson

Niels Olson — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:54:15 +0000

I can’t get pressure support in inkscape. Using XQuartz 2.3.2, OSX 10.5.6, Inkscape 0.46. Have tried an intuos3 and wireless graphire. I can confirm good pressure control in GIMP.

By: Niels Olson

Niels Olson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:55:03 +0000

let me clarify . . . in Linux you also have to use “Configure extended input devices…” and set pen to screen.

By: Niels Olson

Niels Olson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:52:49 +0000

This is actually quite similar to what is necessary for Linux. Why GIMP doesn’t ship with this enabled is beyond me.

By: Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:45:22 +0000

The instructions above work fine with my Wacom Bamboo tablet with Xquartz 2.3.2.1 and Mac OS X 10.5.6 (on PPC).