I use a drawing tablet and prefer to use linux for drawing. That said, I have an XP Pen tablet, a budget alternative to Wacom and this device has some issues.
Older drivers and software for XP Pen tablets worked relatively simple. The newer driver and software is worse by a large margin. Thought I’d document the troubles I encountered here in case others have these issues.
Issue 1:
Monitor selection. When selecting the correct monitor in the software, regardless of distro or DE, the cursor shows on the wrong display. This is a massive issue with the framework cause mirrored screens with different resolutions and aspect ratios. That said, if you select all monitors the pen interacts only with the tablet.
Issue 2:
Configurations do not auto-save. Configurations can be saved to a file and then opened through the software but to maintain a configuration, you must select the apply or save button, outside of the configuration menu and in the main window.
Issue 3:
There can be some issues with scaling in X11. The only real advice I have on this is to use Wayland. I first started with this device in PopOS and enabled wayland and a litany of issues around scaling, mainly an offset between pen and cursor, were all resolved. There are some guides to resolving a lot of these issues, David Revoy has an excellent guide on his blog but this device just works better with wayland.
