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So I have a Huion HS611 tablet which works (almost) perfectly fine with Arch even without the driver installed, (although the touch/zoom bar doesn't work) but I can't remap the buttons, which is pretty annoying and messes with my workflow, so I'm trying to figure out a solution to remapping the buttons.
I'm using KDE, so the first thing I tried was to go into the KDE pen tablet settings. Unfortunately it only allows me to adjust the tablet area and pen settings, no options for button remapping. So that was a bust.
Huion doesn't make Linux drivers for any OS other than Ubuntu officially. There is an AUR package for the huion drivers, but I've tried those and while it installed, it didn't actually function. It seems there was an update that broke it for certain devices, (evidently including mine) according to the comments.
It seems like there's a few options using things like xsetwacom, but they require X11, and there are a couple things I use that depend on Wayland, so it would be annoying for me to have to constantly switch between the two; I would much prefer to just stick with Wayland.
I did notice that Huion has downloads for the Ubuntu drivers in both .deb and .tar.xz format, so I tried downloading the latter, extracting and installing it. And it did work! Even the touch/zoom bar works. Unfortunately there's one problem: in order to use the tablet, the huion driver app has to be open, and unlike on Ubuntu/Debian based OSes, the huion driver app does NOT minimize to the system tray. It stays in the task manager/taskbar as long as it's open. Clicking the close button just minimizes it, and closing it with Alt+F4 causes the tablet to cease functioning until either the tablet driver app is reopened or the tablet is unplugged and re-plugged in. (in the latter case, the button remappings reset to default, and the touch/zoom bar stops working again.) And I can't live with an extra program in my taskbar every time I use my tablet. (If someone knows of a way I could remedy this part of the issue and force it to stay exclusively to the system tray, this would be a perfect solution to my problem)
The only other solution I've found that might work for me is OpenTabletDriver. This seems promising, especially since the Huion HS611 is on it's official list of supported tablets. But it seems that OpenTabletDriver doesn't support the touch/zoom bar yet, so if I can get the official driver working somehow, that would be best. (or if there's another solution that might work better)
Anyone have any suggestions for how I could get this working?
Last edited by mayfrogs (2025-08-20 06:43:08)
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Hello Frog
if you are in kde, I think there are two things you could try, maybe the second option would be better for what you want
1. set the huion app to skip the taskbar, via the alt +f3 -> more actions -> special app settings
2. create a new activity and set the huion app to show exclusively inside that activity, if you ever want to modify settings just go to that activity, and then switch back to your main activity
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