Tips for spen action shortcut on samsung tablet

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Hey for people who are using samsung tablet that have the spen air action gesture, you can use it for spen actions in the configure krita.

I heard that many people said it doesnt do anything but it does.

First of all go to ur own samsung setting (im using samsung tab s7+), go to:
advanced features
Spen
Air actions (turn it on)
See the turned off app below, you will see krita app in there, click to turn it on.

Go to Krita, see it working, dont forget any gesture need to be accompany with the click spen button while doing the gestures.

Additional tips:
For people who set the middle button click(spen button) as the pop up palette, can also use the 1 click on spen action for other thing.

So if you 1 click near and towards the screen, it will be a pop up palette, then 1 click away (not close to screen) will activates 1 click u set on the spen actions.

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The last paragraph is kinda confusing for me.

But here is what I’ve done…

The trouble with disabling the SPen’s sub menu is that certain functions can only be accessed using it and if that’s disabled, the user loses that function (such as the scrolling screenshot, which can capture an entire scrolling webpage.)

with 5.1.0 onward, the pop-up palette works nicely. I still have my SPen button set to call up the Actions but I just dismiss that and do what I want with the palette

See my setup here:

(Dismiss = tap near area that I want to access, such as the submenu I’m going to use.)

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@Otherwise_Twist Please don’t ask the same question in multiple threads. We are already helping you in the topic you created.

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No problem for me. Except on rare occasions, some brushes suddenly jolted a straight line out of nowhere. But it fixes itself at some point.

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The last paragraph just to explain that if you click the spen button a bit away or direct away from the tablet, it will set the spen action function rather than the krita spen function.

For example: i watch movie while drawing in krita in split screen. If i click spen button not directed to the screen, i might pause the movie because it understand as spen action.

But nowadays i use one finger tap to show the pop up palette.

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