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#1 2024-09-25 10:41:09

sunya
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Registered: 2024-09-25
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Wacom tablet not functioning in obsidian

Hi guys I'm running Hyprland(Nvidia) on my laptop, and trying to make my wacom tablet (model: CTL-472) work.

I went through Archwiki-Graphic_tablet and associated Hyprland doc, and had done the basic setups.

Now here's the issue:
when i visit excalidraw, i can easily drawing around with my tablet, functioning well as a tablet is expected to;
but when i turn to obsidian plugin excalidraw, trying to do the same thing, it fails. the pen just won't perform any click or drawing, while it does move the cursor around.

Is it that in obsidian the tablet "loses" pressure sensibility? how to fix it?

thank you guys for looking at this,

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#2 2024-09-26 05:53:56

sunya
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Registered: 2024-09-25
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Re: Wacom tablet not functioning in obsidian

seems like it's an Electron issue, since i also tried in Vscodium, which fails as well.
`sudo libinput debug-events` gives expected output, indicating that my pen is moving around and pressing down, but click/draw in obsidian and vscodium just won't work.

is there any electron-flags i had missed out or certain setting up?

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#3 2025-03-05 19:05:06

ninni
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Registered: 2025-03-05
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Re: Wacom tablet not functioning in obsidian

Hey sunya, did you find a solution for this problem? Running into the same thing (using hyprland).
My wacom tablet works perfectly otherwise, e.g. in xournalpp

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#4 2025-05-22 10:47:54

aomiki
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Registered: 2025-05-22
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Re: Wacom tablet not functioning in obsidian

Still a problem whenever I try to run obsidian under wayland without xwayland:

OBSIDIAN_USE_WAYLAND=1 obsidian --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-wayland-ime&

It does really seem like it's obsidian/electron problem overall, since I can't click anywhere in obsidian with tablet pen. It highlights the buttons, but never clicks.

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#5 2025-08-05 00:59:12

grimhike
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Registered: 2024-02-19
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Re: Wacom tablet not functioning in obsidian

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40282832 see this upstream tracker. Looks like it's getting there. 

In the meantime, you can force xwayland using the ozone-platform flag, if tablet support is a must-have.

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