Huion Pen Is Connected But Does Not Move Mouse Upgrade To A

But if you want to really draw, you can upgrade to a drawing tablet (also known as graphics tablets ).

Here is one below.

It is an entry level drawing tablet, has a pressure-sensitive pen that does not require batteries, and the actual tablet to draw on, looks like an over-sized laptop touchpad.

Instead of your fingers, you use the pen to move the pointer on your screen.

There is mainline support in the Linux kernel for this tablet since 2015, therefore the following should work with Ubuntu 16.04 or newer.

They have been tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

It is suggested to use a recent version of Ubuntu as there is drawing tablet support in the system settings.

You should get the following two lines, for the pad and the stylus.

If not, continue reading to setup your X server to recognize the Huion 430P.

Huion Pen Is Connected But Does Not Move Mouse Driver Needs Help

But the driver needs help to recognize which USB devices are to be used by the wacom driver.

You provide this help by editing the file usrshareX11xorg.conf.d70-wacom.conf and referencing the Huion drawing tablet.

Here is the addition to the file usrshareX11xorg.conf.d70-wacom.conf The identifier is a free-text description of the device.

Then, in MatchUSBID we match the vendor part of the USB ID, so that other Huion tablets should work as well.

Once you restart the X server, verify you get the following output.

There is no specific configuration for the Huion 430P but there are for other Huion models.

It is easy to add support for the 430P and I have some configuration.

If we want to perform specific configuration, we can always use the xsetwacom utility.

The small area of the drawing tablet (4.3 diagonally) is mapped directly to your full display.

That is, unlike a mouse where you can lift it to move the pointer further away, on a tablet instead pointer is mapped directly to the full display.

Which means that a small 4.3 active tablet area might be too densesensitive for your FullHD or 4K display.

Each application like GIMP, Inkscape and Blender have support to configure input devices like drawing tablets.

You can configure in them whether you want to map the active area to the whole screen, or the windows drawing area.

We use the default settings and switched the Dynamics to Pressure Size.

This meas that the pen, which detects the pressure, should draw a line that has a variable size, depending on the pressure.

At this stage, the drawing tablet is just smoother than the mouse.

It only shows the Core Pointer and has not information about the drawing tablet.