I was wondering if it’s possible to have Krita open on an external monitor and have it respond to my drawing tablet and pen. I have tried but the pen stops at the edge of my laptop monitor and won’t cross over to the external when I’ve moved Krita over there. (hope that makes sense)
I’m on an older MBP with OS Mojave running Krita 5.0.2 (I may be updating it again, tho).
My tablet is the Huion H1060P Graphics Drawing Tablet
Is there a setting I can adjust either on my laptop or the tablet or in Krita? I don’t know what I’m missing to make this work (if it even can).
Yes it is possible, or should be, but I have no experience of using a Mac.
I assume that you’ve set your MBP to an Extended desktop because you mention moving krita to the external monitor.
After that it’s up to the tablet settings and there should be a section in the tablet setup/config utility that lets you set the tablet drawing area to be mapped to the entire desktop.
Many people use two monitors and use a drawing tablet in this way.
(On Linux and Windows I have the main krita window on one monitor and many floating dockers on the other monitor.)
Did you do a power down restart after you set it up for an Extended desktop? If not then try that and also check the Huion utility settings.
Once you get Krita and your drawing pen set up the way you like it, it’s a good idea to restrict the stylus to only one screen. Otherwise your paint strokes will be distorted (you’ll paint a circle but an oval will come out).
It depends on your personal situation and preferences.
If you have a wide aspect ratio laptop and a wide aspect ratio external monitor then mapping the tablet to the entire extended desktop will give you definite ovals if you hand draw a circle on the tablet surface.
You can adjust the active area of the tablet to be less in the vertical direction so that its aspect ratio matches your extended desktop. That would give you a smaller active area which may be inconvenient or feel ‘cramped’ depending on the physical size of your tablet.
You can do as @sooz suggests but even then there may be a mismatch between tablet drawing area aspect ratio and monitor aspect ratio that makes a perfect hand drawn circle, on the surface of the tablet, appear somewhat oval on the monitor.
That can be dealt with by slightly adjusting the tablet active area boundaries.
Or, you can accept the aspect ratio mismatch and get used to it
I suggest that you try all three possibilities and see how they feel.
