Luis wrote:
I tried to install Inkscape Fedora RPM, but for some reason the
last repository version seems highly broken (at least with my
package setup). I should compile it by myself when I have some
time (lots of libraries and dependencies).
There are autopackages available at the inkscape website. You can
choose the latest stable version or svn compilations. It's not the
cleanest way to install a package, but it will work for your tests.
Perfect. I installed and tested it (see below).
Anyway, your problem description is EXACTLY mine.
Did you try disabling the eraser (not the stylus)?
In that way, the mouse works (but not the eraser, of course).
You should move the stylus to 'activate' the mouse.
Is this also the behavior in Inkscape?
My pen hasn't an eraser (it isn't a Wacom) so I can't tell.
What I could see is the same in Gimp and in Inkscape. Once you've
used the tablet, it seems to "catch" the pointer, and the mouse
becomes unuseful for the app.
But if you close the program, everything works as it should.
For my GIMP you don't need to close it. The mouse always works
in other apps. Only in GIMP, and in the canvas, it does not work.
I'm guessing it's a GTK problem because Gimp and Inkscape share the
same menu for activating the tablet. But I really don't know if I'm
right. Somebody pointed here that is a problem fixed in the newest
versions of gtk+ and linuxwacom, but I'll have to wait those
libraries to be in the Ubuntu repos, since I'm not so comfortable
experimenting with that kind of libraries (GTK mostly, I don't want
to break something if I don't know how to fix it - at least in my
computer for work :-p).
For me, Inkscape worked TOO WELL (?!).
I mean, I opened the Inkscape, and everything worked without changing
the preferences: mouse, stylus and eraser. I then opened the
preferences, and everything was DISABLED! I enabled everything, and
everything still worked. I disabled everything, and everything STILL
worked... Crazy.
When changing the state of the input devices, I got errors in
the console, though:
(inkscape:6099): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_background: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_scrolled_window_add: assertion `bin->child == NULL' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_set_background: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_scrolled_window_add: assertion `bin->child == NULL' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_realize: assertion `GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed
(inkscape:6099): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_drawable_get_colormap: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed
Another strange thing is that the 3 devices picked up the same tool.
I mean, I couldn't set one tool for stylus and other for the mouse.
But I don't know if that is even possible in Inkscape.
If someone still was trying to understand what was happening,
he will give up now! :-)
Thanks,
L.
