I’ve noticed some issue with using my Wacom Tablet on Fedora 43, where it used to work fine in the past. The issue seems to be specific software not receiving any input at all (no clicks or anything) from the tablet pointer.
I tried various solutions on my own, such as trying OpenTabletDriver - and while the tablet works and registers pressure sensitivity (testing and calibrating in settings is flawless), some software don’t recognize it at all.
For example:
Steam (Linux Runtime 1.0 and the old runtime both)
Krita
Aseprite (both through Steam Runtime and when building myself)
Other software seems to have a easier time such as Blender.
I’m not sure what’s up, but I’m guessing it could have something to do with Wayland and these programs relying on XWayland or X11? I’m not sure, but it used to work in Fedora 41 Gnome. Is there a way to run this software in a kind of compatibility mode? Or should I switch to a different X11 DE altogether? I really enjoy Gnome and Fedora 43, but this small thing is quite bothersome hehe.
See: https://developer-support.wacom.com/hc/en-us/articles/12845584068247-Wayland. There are many Wacom tablet models and applications vary in how they support Wacom devices. You may have to raise your issue with app developers, but posting your Wacom model and names of problem applications may get help from people who have already done the investigation. You may need to look for alternatives to legacy Xorg apps.
Same issue here, seems like someone was messing with how tablets work and broke something (again…).
The stylus clicks (left, right, middle, everything) don’t work in xwayland apps, which is most drawing software.
I’ve tested 2 tablets:
One by Wacom (medium)
Huion Kamvas 16 (2021)
both don’t work.
If you’re on Silverblue, the latest deployment that works is 43.20260419.0. Run this command and restart, everything should work again: rpm-ostree deploy 43.20260419.0