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I'm thinking of gifting a drawing tablet to a person who uses Ubuntu. I had my eyes on the Huion Kamvas Pro 13 and I would like to know if it is supported before making a terrible mistake. However, I couldn't find any clear information online and the related questions here on AskUbuntu are quite outdated.

Gianluca Micchi
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I plugged my kamvas 13 pro in a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and it works :

  • full-hd screen recognized
  • stylus working well as mouse
  • stylus pressure working in blender !!
  • multi-monitor setup (except for the stylus, see below)

What does not work out-of-the-box :

  • tablet buttons and slider
  • forcing the stylus area to a single monitor (tablet) ; the stylus moves to the entire desktop

To force the stylus area read input coordinates transformation and tranformation matrix.

It works with this xinput fix :

xinput set-prop 15 --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0.5 0 0.25 0 0.333333 0.666666 0 0 1

... here is my monitors setup :

  • 4K monitor on top
  • full-HD kamvas monitor below centered

I can now work on blender with my kamvas pro 13 in a dual-monitor config !!!!

PhE
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Huion does not offer a Linux driver, but you can go to this website and it offers huion for some linux versions: https://github.com/Huion-Linux.

UbuntuCanHelp
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I was able to get the Huion pro 13 setup and working without using any dkms kernel drivers. I recomend the kamvas-driver python driver from here: https://pypi.org/project/kamvas-driver/.

Settting up the driver was not very difficult, sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3-pip && sudo pip3 install kamvas-driver && sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python && sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-evdev

Once those commands are finished run kamvas -c in your home directory to generate a configuration file. then run kamvas start or kamvas stop to respectively start or stop the driver. You can set what your buttons do in the ~/.kamvas_config.yaml file. In your control panel settings set your monitors to mirror, enjoy your new working Huion tablet!

Michael
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I managed to get my Huion Pro 13 working (including buttons) on ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10 with kamvas-driver python as suggested by Michael (thanks a lot!) . But I had some issue, here is how I solved it if someone is interested:

  • I had to change product_id in ~/.kamvas_config.yaml (i used lsusb to get the proper value)
  • I had to change default_display in ~/.kamvas_config.yaml (i used xrandr to get the proper value)
  • I had to set /usr/bin/python to refer to python3. I used :
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python3 1
sudo update-alternatives --config python
  • I added a file /etc/X11/xorg.conf containing:
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
    MatchIsTablet "on"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Kracken
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