Hey, in case it helps someone, I was just trying out my Huion Giano on Ubuntu 24.04 and to my surprise the official proprietary driver didn’t work. It was running on XWayland and the driver configuration app did not see the monitor at all. The monitor size was collapsed to a tiny dot, and the pen couldn’t move. It was the 15.0.0.162 driver version.
I “fixed” that by removing the Huion driver and instead installing OpenTabletDriver (version 0.6.4.0 at the time). This worked perfectly and after switching to “Artist Mode” in screen mapping section, I had pen pressure in Krita as well.
NOTE: OpenTabletDriver may require a bit more set up to assign the tablet keys, pen buttons, etc. as it won’t have the defaults.
A bonus for Windows users
After having this positive exprience, I removed my Wacom driver on Windows and switched to OpenTabletDriver as well. It requires a closed source HID driver and a Windows Ink plugin (it’s explained in the docs), but after some fine-tuning I was able to easily switch from Wacom to Huion without reinstalling any drivers. I think that’s really cool
Compared to the native Wacom driver you can’t assign mouse buttons to pen buttons, and some features may not be supported, but honestly, for me it was absolutely sufficient. YMMV, but it’s worth a shot.
EDIT: Welp, I just upgraded to Windows 11 24H2, and it seems to have broken my driver! It started causing false mouse clicks when pen was brought near to the tablet surface and taken away. I had to reinstall the Wacom driver. I will try OTD again when I will need to switch to my Huion.
Interesting! I might try this on my current main machine, maybe that’ll fix some of the Krita issues I’ve been having. Although I’d miss the „precision mode” a bit… it’s one of the features that kept me from looking for alternatives, as it’s super useful when I have a shakey hand morning post-coffee
Did it work with default libinput without open tablet driver and huions proprietary one? If not it may be good to submit information about this model to libinput people
No, unfortunately the pen doesn’t work out of the box, without any additional drivers. It gets an error in libinput. I remember that thread and reported it before
I’m one of these users that use the tablet like a piece of paper, if the tracking and pen pressure work, it’s good enough for me For everything else I use the keyboard.
It started causing false mouse clicks when pen was brought near to the tablet surface and taken away. I had to reinstall the Wacom driver. I will try OTD again when I will need to switch to my Huion.
