I got a new Wacom Intuos M today (not the Pro version) and tried it out with Krita. While drawing works fine Krita seems to ignore my application specific pen settings. I have set “tumble” on the upper pen button and “right click” on the lower one. But Krita ignores these settings and does it the other way around. Even if I flip the mapping, Krita still uses the upper button as right-click and the lower for tumble.
In the settings, I tried using the Windows Ink driver instead of WinTab, but that didn’t help.
It seems to me that this is a Krita-specific problem as I didn’t observe this in other applications so far. GIMP for example perfectly accepts new key mappings, which I set via the driver.
I found a workaround by changing the canvas input settings.
Under “Pan Canvas” I added a Mouse option “Right Button” for “Pan mode”, which seems to correspond to the upper pen button and under “Show Popup Widget” for the action “Activate” I set the Mouse’s “Middle Button”, which seems to be the lower pen button. (I deleted the conflicting middle mouse button shortcut.)
While this works this overrides my mouse buttons, which I find suboptimal for moments when I work with the mouse.
Is there a better way to solve this? Can’t I use the pen buttons directly somehow?
In case anybody is wondering what ‘Tumble’ is, as i was, here is some information:
The best way to find out what the pen buttons are sending to krita is to use them to enter the values for a new canvas input setting, then you’ll see what they do.
After that, you delete the canvas input setting you’ve just created because it was only created to test the output of the stylus buttons.
As far as I know, you can’t use the pen buttons directly in terms of ‘upper button’ or ‘lower button’ values for a keyboard shortcut or canvas input.
Something you may want to try is to delete the krita profile, close the Wacom utility and close krita, then do a power down restart.
Start krita and the Wacom utility, create a new profile for krita and set it up as you want it. Then close the Wacom utility and do another full power down restart.
That may ‘flush out’ any problems in the Wacom profile configuration files.
I occasionally get this issue (also with Intuos M but older version) where either pen pressure stops working or button mapping resets to default (not what I have it set to in Wacom Properties). Sometimes alt-tabbing back and forth (using buttons out of Krita then back in Krita) helps but usually have to close Krita and restart Wacom Driver (In Wacom Center: Cog wheel upper right corner > Restart Driver) to fix it.
Also thanks for your suggestions! I’ve tried it, sadly that didn’t help.
@Sake Mh restarting the driver doesn’t fix it for me either. But thanks to you too for the idea!
For now it seems that I have to live with my workaround. It would be great though if Krita could use input from graphic tablet buttons and the buttons of their pens as a direct mapping in the input settings instead of treating them as mouse buttons. The tablet tester in the “Tablet Settings” seems to recognize them, for example as “button 4”.
Did you try to set, or unset, the setting: “Use mouse events for right- and middle-clicks (workaround for convertible devices, needs restart)”, depending on the current setting?
It is only a guess, but trying does no harm, so why not trying in case you hadn’t so far, you can’t lose anything, but maybe you win.
Good idea! That did help. It’s still a workaround though, but at least it works now reliably. As I can remap the mouse buttons in my pen settings this also does not collide with the mapping I intended for my mouse. Thank you!
