(Steam Version on Fedora 42) Tablet pen eraser isn't recognized by Pixieditor

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Hello,

I’m running Pixieditor through steam on Fedora 42 workstation, using the framework 12’s touchscreen + a Microsoft Pen Protocol 2.0 pen. When I test the pen’s eraser tip in the fedora settings menu, it behaves correctly, erasing drawn lines. I can confirm the same behavior in Krita.

In Pixieditor, however, it’s detected as a separate, normal pen tip, and simply replicates the normal pen tip behavior of drawing with whatever tool is currently selected. Occasionally the eraser tip freezes up instead of drawing (which doesn’t happen with the normal pen tip), which leads me to believe there’s at least some unintended behavior happening.

I’m trying to isolate where the problem is and Pixieditor is the last step where I can’t confirm it’s working. Are tablet pen erasers supported in pixieditor currently, and i’m experiencing a bug? Or is that simply a feature not yet implemented. Any additional diagnostic tips would also be appreciated.

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At the moment, tablet support is work in progress. We are working on a brush engine with proper tablet support.

I am curious if your tablet properties are correctly detected by PixiEditor on Linux.
Would you mind going to Edit → Settings → Scroll down and toggle on “Enable Debug Mode”

Then new menu entry will pop up “Debug”. Click on it and select “Open pointer debug window”.

Are Pen Specific properties correctly detected with your setup?

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Looks like no, the pen-specific block of the debug window doesn’t change at all when I draw with said pen. Seems like the stylus is detected as generic pointer type mouse.

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Thanks, as I said, tablet support is not yet implemented. It will be in PixiEditor 2.1 along the Brush Engine

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