On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Patrick Horgan <phorgan1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1) If I plug it in after the gimp is already started it isn't recognized
as a tablet, i.e. doesn't appear as an extended input device that can be
configured and works only as a mouse.
2) If I plug it in before starting the gimp, it's recognized and works
well, but if I unplug it before exiting the gimp, gimp will crash in a
little bit.
Inkscape has exactly the same behavior including the crash.
This is a known issue, and exists because
there is no agreed interface for X to tell applications about
appearing and disapearing devices(there is DBUS, but im not sure if X
sends the type notifications needed for this use) and no mechanism in
the toolkits(in this case, GTK) to handle it, because its rather new
for X to have appearing and disapearing input devices. Gimp sees what
devices are available on startup and wont be aware of the devices added
later. When you remove a device however, gimp(or rather GTK IIRC) will
try to get data from a noinexisting device and crash. I quickly looked
at the issue when I encountered it myself and it was quite above ma
capabilities to fix, but I dont remember the details any more.
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--Alexia
P.S Sorry for the spam, Patrick.
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