The question about the brand and model of pen and laptop was aimed at allowing us to find out something about the capabilities of this combination. Depending on the price range of your model, one of the following pens will probably have been included: “Dell Active Pen - PN5122W; Dell Premier Pen - PN7522W; Dell Premium Active Pen - PN579X”, all of which are good writing tools.
Unfortunately, configuring the pens on these 2-in-1 laptops is almost always problematic, as they usually lack proper driver software. These devices have led to a noticeable increase in help requests, due to their poor configurability, for drawing per se these pens are quite suitable, but were created with the aim of representing a writing device¹ that can get by with the standard mouse buttons, if it has buttons. As already mentioned, the styluses of the regular graphics tablets and pen displays offer much more possibilities and comfort of customization thanks to their driver software².
The options left to you are to map the pen buttons to the keys available in Windows, if at all possible, and in Krita, if necessary, to customize one or the other shortcut to do what you want with the available pen buttons (left-click, right-click, middle mouse button?).
To customize shortcuts in Krita you have the following two menu levels in Krita’s settings under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘Canvas Input Settings’’ and also under ‘‘Settings’’ >> ‘‘Configure Krita’’ >> ‘‘Keyboard Shortcuts’’.
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¹) Unfortunately, the brochures of the vendors do not point out this aspect.
²) There used to be a universal driver for Windows 7 that could control and assign the buttons (of many) of these pens, maybe it still works with Windows 10 & 11. Unfortunately I can’t find it on the internet anymore, but maybe you’ll have more success searching for it, it would bring you a lot of comfort.