Good day. I just bought a new Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite in the hopes to do some art while on the go. However, I do see an option to change the s pen settings but I cannot seem to get the new commands to work. One of them is double hitting the spen button to activate eraser but that doesn’t seem to work. I also changed the single hitting the button to undo but that doesn’t seem to work either. I’m not sure what it is I’m doing wrong and I’m hoping someone can help me
Those S Pen settings are for some compatible Samsung devices, I’m afraid. According to Samsung’s website they’re Note 9 (partial), Note 10 and Tab S6.
I am not entirely sure, but I don’t think there is a way to detect button clicks when stylus is not touching screen (lmk if it does work for some other app). However, If you want to change the behavior of stylus button (which currently is panning), you can go to “Canvas Input Settings” and change the behavior for mouse middle button, which is what stylus button synthesizes to.
That’s disappointing. But I’ll definitely check out the middle button setting! Thank you 
Hi! Just bought a Tab s6 lite myself and I am trying to learn. Have you found any particular sites to be helpful? Right now I am trying to learn and adjust the pen settings. I am ready to just go buy a pen display tablet. Thanks in advance for your help!
Hello and welcome to the forum @Lori!
I don’t think you will get an answer from the creator of this topic @ChrisChaosGamer, who wrote only these two posts after he opened this topic and wasn’t logged in for exactly one year and thirteen days, but hope dies last! 
Maybe @CrazyCatBird could help you with the specifics of using Krita with a tablet, if I remember correctly he uses a tablet to paint with Krita (I may be wrong about that of course).
I don’t know what pages the OP should have found, but I would like to suggest the manual, it is available in several languages and is a good source of information for general operation and the basics of using Krita, but specific Android topics are not covered, (probably because Krita-Android is only in beta so far, but that is speculation on my part). Which graphics tablets work well with Krita on an Android tablet is unfortunately not known to me, and Google wasn’t much help either Huion, XP-Pen and Wacom tablets are supposed to work mostly
work most of the time.
Michelist
I did try changing the settings within Krita for using the Spen’s button to trigger a middle mouse event (trying to get at the pop-up palette) but it only worked sometimes and I had to keep the Spen in contact with the tablet when pushing the pen’s button. Turns out that I was able to trigger the pop-up by simply long pressing with my finger.
That’s The extent that I played with using the Spen button.
I’ve read that many have had to disable the Spen functions (turn off the Spen menu that triggers when you press it’s button or take it out of it’s holder) but I didn’t want to do that since I like the screenshot function (it does the scrolling long screenshot).
Hi,
I also use a Tab S6 and can use the spen button for certain actions without it touching the screen.
I can activate pop up pallet and other menus depending on what tool is selected.
I can also drag and drop objects in to a canvas.
I do have air command disabled, not necessarily just because it interrupts these functions in krita, I don’t use air command personally… however i thought since you liked the screen capture, you could perhaps use the persistent side panel ( smart select) or power + vol down as substitutes instead. Easy access, no need for pen. So you can disable air command.
At the moment it is simply impossible to use pop ups with the pen button without opening air command.
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That sounds interesting, I might try that.
Are you able to use the long screenshot
too with it like that?
Edit: just tried the smart select - unfortunately, it does not do scroll capture.
Thank you so much for the link! Lots of great info for a beginner, and again, thank you so much for your kindness!!!
Lori
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Heya!
So after playing around with this after a while I realized that the S6 Lite seems to not be fully supported at least at the time. Most of the support seemed to have been with the fully-featured tablets.
Whether or not Krita now supports this I don’t know.
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Well, what does Krita support?
Krita can only work with the “signals” that Krita gets from the hardware. For this there are nowadays defined transfer points (interfaces), there user programs “talk” with the drivers of the hardware, and when a key is pressed on the stylus, the driver must tell Krita “I have a signal for you”, and then pass this as a letter, number, etcetera in a form that Krita understands and performs the assigned action. 
No matter if it is Krita as graphics software 
or for example the racing simulation Tux Racer 
, it would be too much to ask that the software manufacturers also provide the drivers for each hardware, that is the task of the hardware manufacturers. (*)
With game consoles 
or the old home computers (C64, Amiga 500, Atari ST, et cetera), thus devices with an unchangeable hardware, this looks differently, there the application programmers with skillful programming can “teach” this defined hardware partly new or changed abilities, at which with the production of this hardware, nobody had thought for possible. (**)
Michelist
(*) I wrote this text mainly because there are always users who claim that Krita has a bug here or there when something in interaction with keyboard, graphics tablet, stylus or mouse does not work as expected. But the driver just doesn’t deliver the correct signal.
(**) The C64 had “standard” only 16 colors, but could display up to 256 colors by programming tricks. This was only possible by using a special feature of the PAL television standard, C64 with NTSC standard could probably not do this. The clever vertical arrangement of different colors allowed further new mixtures.
Oh thank you so much everyone. It might not be the Eraser function I was hoping for, but pulling out the pop up palette is SO much better than panning around.
I just had to go to the “Canvas Input Settings” and under “Show Popup Widget” changed the Input to “Middle Button”!
Krita is an excellent program and I’ve been creating art of the same quality in my TAB S7 FE than in my Huion Kamvas 16 on my Windows 10 Laptop.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for porting it to Android!!
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The spen shortcut setting in the configure krita is for spen air action. To make it work u have to go to samsung setting, enable air action and allow air action to be use in krita app. Then any air action gesture in krita such as double click, gesture up, down, etc can be use when spen is a bit far from the screen. Just a bit away from the screen, just not point the spen so close to the screen.
So for example, for me, i direct my pen close to the screen and click just 1 to use pop up pallete (not air gesture).
Then a bit away from screen, double click spen button to undo. (Air gesture)
@Reitei17 Krita team add support for that lately ? These air actions doesnt work on my s7 + few months ago 
OMG with new gesture action from @sh-zam and that air action krita is a painting machingun @RamonM you should make some Video on yt to show these android features ! Krita 5.1 with that features is waaaaaay beyond any competition on android market , world need to hear about that ! I will ping Brad Colbow yt chanel about that. When Krita 5.1 will be resale we need to make some noise <3 ! 
Overall I found only one small glitch with that air action. When we use any air action to toggle popup pallette its appear but it doesn’t disappear when we click on the canvas etc ( we need to make the same air action again to make pallete toggle off @sh-zam should know what do with that , Am i right ;)?
I may have misunderstood you, could you explain, what exactly do you mean by “resale”?
Why should Krita be sold? It is free open source software.
Michelist
I guess a “release” typo?
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Sorry , I was typing in the car I mean " release"
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