[Gllug] Linux Tablets

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 04:03:08PM +0000, Walter Stanish wrote:
> > In addition to their numerous purposes and witty text adventures, is
> > it possible to use any of these tablets as drawing tablets?
> 
> The main features of Wacom-style tablets that enable natural drawing
> are pressure sensors and high DPI.
> 
> Tablet computers today probably lack the DPI and almost certainly lack
> effective pressure sensors.
> 
> I seem to remember Wacom have a tablet computer specifically for
> drawing... though it costs a lot.

Mairin Duffy's been using one of these:

https://mairin.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/fedora-12-rocks-on-tablets/

I'm not 100% sure how it works.  It doesn't seem to be a standard
feature, but she does claim that the tablet part is "built in" to the
screen somehow.

Rich.

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