On Windows, you need to include directx while building Gimp. You can get the directx sdk from Microsoft. On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:23 AM, Alexia Death <alexiadeath@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Wdaemon is pretty much obsolete in modern linux distributions. Only > thing that does not do hotplug yet is GTK2 and the requirement of > restarting gimp after you plug in your tablet and keeping it plugged > in while GIMP is running is not that onerous to justify using wdaemon > in most cases. > > The original poster actually already got his answers for IRC I > believe. There should be no tablet regressions between 2.7.4 and 2.7.5 > on Linux. On windows, at least the initial build failed to pick up any > tablets at all for me, reason is yet unknown. > > If you need to build your own gtk, do not forget --with-xinput > parameter on linux, there is probably a comparable flag for windows. > Without it your freshly built GTK wont have any tablet support and > extended devices remain grayed out or not there at all. > > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ragnar Brynjúlfsson <ragtag@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't know how Linux Mint sets up it's tablet, but in the past >> I've used wdaemon ( >> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=Wdaemon >> ), to make hot-plugging of wacom tablets work under CentOS 4/5. It >> basically creates a virtual tablet that is connected all the time, and >> then captures the tablet when you connect it and uses it in place of >> the virtual tablet. This means, that to the system, the tablet is >> never disconnected. >> >> Isn't this an issue with the X server, and not GIMP or GTK+? >> >> Ragnar >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:54 PM, <jfrazierjr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> ---- Michael Natterer <mitch@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>> >>>>GIMP 2.7.5 has been released. This is the last development snapshot in >>>>the unstable 2.7 series that leads to 2.8. Only release candidates and >>>>the 2.8 release will follow. >>> >>>>For a complete list of changes since 2.7.4 please see the "Changes" >>>>section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.7 series at >>>>http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> There is a section of the release notes which discusses tablets and one >>> or more bugs in GTK+: >>> >>> "GIMP 2.8 relies on a newer version of GTK+2 that unfortunately has >>> partially broken support for graphics tablets such as Wacom. If your >>> graphic tablet doesn't work in GIMP 2.8 as it should, we recommend >>> downgrading to 2.6 until we release GIMP 3.0 that relies on GTK+3 which >>> has fully functional support for advanced input devices." >>> >>> >>> Can anyone point to the specific(or multiple) bug details? Does 2.7.5 >>> require a greater version of GTK+ compared to 2.7.4? The reason I >>> ask is that of course I have a tablet and had some issues with it not >>> working after unplugging/re-plugging(greyed out in Extended Input >>> Devices even after reboot). I did end up doing two things at the time >>> and one of them ended up fixing the issue with some thoughts thrown out >>> by people on the IRC channel: >>> >>> 1) rebooted with only tablet plugged up(ie, disconnected my mouse which >>> was NOT plugged in when the OS, Linux Mint 12, was installed. >>> >>> 2) recompiled gtk+(had to download and compile since distro version >>> was less than required.. not sure what version I grabbed though) and >>> added the option to ./configure for, not quite sure of the name and >>> can't check right now, but something like --with_xinput or something >>> like that...Which I am fairly sure I did NOT do the first time. >>> >>> 3) recompiled gimp 2.7.4(taken from git the day after 2.7.4 was released). >>> >>> This ended up fixing the problem. Needless to say, I have not >>> dis-connected my tablet again, so I don't know for sure if the issue >>> would come back or not... At this point, my tablet is working perfectly >>> and while I would like to upgrade, I don't want to break the tablet again... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> gimp-developer-list mailing list >>> gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx >>> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-developer-list mailing list >> gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > > > > -- > --Alexia > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list
