Mastering Touch & Stylus in GNU+Linux

[Chris Bier]

I got a touch screen Chromebook that I converted, and went through the same process. For pen input graphics, Krita is pretty hard to beat. I haven't really experimented with the GIMP and pen input.

Xournal++ is pretty cool for hand note taking.

I thought I would use the pen input a lot more than I have. The touch screen has been very handy, though. I like being able to touch my way through sites.  I've been pretty happy with how well everything worked without me having to do much. The 2-in-1 flip required some script to monitor a orientation device, but other than that, everything pretty much worked.

On Sat, Jun 17, 2023, at 22:40, Billy Croan wrote:
> I recently got a laptop that has both touch and stylus support in the screen itself.  I got a pen and it is connected and it works, even the pressure sensitivity.  It's supposed to also communicate the angle of the pen though I have yet to see that.
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> I'm interested in really learning how to use the GIMP image editor more fully, and make the best use of the stylus for creating things.
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> I've used GIMP for as long as I have used Linux.  I've done a lot with it editing something that started out as a photo or a screenshot or a scan.  But I don't think I've really mastered it.  Particularly I've always felt awkward creating something from scratch in GIMP.  And I suspect that is because a mouse or trackpad don't feel very natural to me as a writing instrument.  Well now I have a literal writing instrument that works in Linux!
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> I'm not an artist and I'm not trying to learn to make "art".  But I would like understand better how to take advantage of different brush strokes and pressure settings, color palettes, etc. and getting more out of the stylus I now have and the creative side of the GIMP as opposed to just the editing as I have done so far.
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> There's definitely Photoshop classes and probably a Photoshop Meetup Group.  But I have no interest in adobe's products.
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> I also think this is a skill best passed on in person where you can watch someone's hand and then give feedback that a video or book cannot give.
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> I'm also interested in other stylus-enabled apps (I have a few to share) and tweaking my Linux environment to be more useful with touch and stylus input.  For instance I can tap and drag in Google maps, but I can't pinch to zoom still!  I have to tap that damn plus and minus button like a peasant and it's humiliating.  I would like to get my touch screen input in Linux working every bit as well, and the same ways as it does in Android.
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> So I know touch screen and stylus are kind of two different topics but, any advice?
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