On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 04:35:26PM +0300, Alex wrote:
Maarten,
It seems that this is something related to Inkscape.
I have succeeded in setting up the digitizer in Linux, and used it in GIMP - there I can perform operations with the digitizer and with the mouse at the same time;
Inkscape - if the digitizer is enabled, the mouse can only be used to choose instruments, but not make any actual drawings on the canvas; only the digitizer pen can paint something on the canvas.
It seems to me that Inkscape consciously does that, this behaviour is in its design.
That is definitely not the case. I have been using a Wacom graphics tablet with GIMP and Inkscape under Linux for just coming up on two years, and haven't observed the behaviour you describe. The only designed-in behaviour difference I can think of off-hand is that GIMP has a separate tool for each input device - the stylus, the eraser end of the stylus, my tablet's mouse, and my proper mouse - and automatically changes tool for each, whereas Inkscape treats them all the same.
Actually, now I come to think of it, when I started Inkscape wouldn't let me use the F2 tool (node thingying) with the stylus, but only with the eraser. My proper mouse still worked for all the tools, though, so it's not quite the same as what you see, and this behaviour changed quite some time ago. (I forget exactly when, as I tend to edit nodes with the mouse rather than with the stylus anyway.)
Sorry I couldn't be more help.