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Does StarLite tablet have stylus support?

I was very interested in buying this device. It support Linux and comes pre-installed with a desktop-environment of my choice (cinnamon, xfce...). However, I couldn't figure out if it has stylus ...
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Write on MS Word or any text editor with an electronic pen

I have pain in my fingers when typing on my ergonomic keyboard. However, I can write perfectly with a pen. Is there any writing app. that allows to write normal text (like "Times New Roman text&...
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Opened windows switching back to My Computer when USB unplugged on windows 10 OS

Whenever I unplug my USB pen drive all my other opened windows in windows 10 and windows 11 OS are switched to My Computer and Desktop folder respectively. I didn't find a solution for this issue. How ...
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Windows 11: pen side button not working as previously

I'm using Windows 11 Insider Preview 10.0.22622.290 on my Lenovo Flex 5i 15. The pen I'm using is the Lenovo Active Pen 2. It has 2 side buttons and up until about two months ago, the upper button, ...
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Why is "use pen as pointer" not working in OneNote?

I have Microsoft 365 and I use a Wacom tablet with a stylus to take notes on my computer. The cursor when using the pen on OneNote is very small and I cannot locate it so I use the "pen as ...
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How to share screen (PDF) and webcam (of me) and tablet pen input (from surface)?

I am looking to teach a language, and need to share three things at once: Screen (usually PDF, but also video and/or audio streamed from web) I can do this on skype or zoom Webcam of me, concurrent ...
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Stylus writing on its own, very likely software related

I have an HP Laptop (Spectre X360 to be exact, from late 2015) with Windows 10 64-bit installed and a resistive stylus that is specifically made for that series of laptops. Normally, if the tip of the ...
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Pen pressure not working anymore in Photoshop or other app

Pen pressure for graphic tablets is not working in Photoshop, nor in any other Windows app. Windows Ink is activated in all the instances, drivers are updated in all the devices (Wacom Intuos Pro, ...
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Huion pen not working

I just bought a huion 420 and no matter what I do the pen won't work. It won't move the mouse at all. I think maybe it's the battery and I'm trying to take it out but I can't. How do i take out the ...
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Wacom Intuos Pro pen writes while hovering

If I start drawing/writing then the pen often keeps writing while being lifted off and moved to the next position where I actually want it to draw. This makes the tablet completely unusable. It's ...
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How to get Bamboo Ink working on a not supported device?

I'm trying to get Bamboo Ink Pen working on my ThinkPad Yoga 14 20DM. It's not listed on the website as compatible device, unlike ThinkPad Yoga 260 and ThinkPad 370 which are. So I'm looking for a ...
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Is there a way to restore pen functionality in Windows 10?

Not too long ago, Windows changed how the pen functions in web browsers, Windows Explorer, and many other apps, forcing a screen drag with a basic tap (like a hand tool), rather than selecting text. ...
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Wacom tablet and adobe photoshop shortcuts not working

My Wacom tablet does not cooperate when I want to change hardness/size of my brush in photoshop. It works with mouse and shortcuts on keyboard, but when I use alt and click the button on my pen (...
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How to disable curve closing in OneNote + Bambo Pen?

I am trying to draw y-like shapes but somtimes it turns them automatically to 9-like shapes, I emphasize that I never drew horizontal caps like in shapes #6 and #7 How to disable this "feature"?
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Wacom tablet pen drawing while hovering [duplicate]

I have the Wacom Intuos and whenever I try to draw on FireAlpaca it draws even when I hover over the tablet with my pen. I don't know if it's something to do with my pen or the tablet, so if you know ...
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How to show actual usb pen size?

I've bought one of those cheap 2TB pen drives online, being aware that was almost surely a scam, but I still decided to do that. The pen shows actual 1.9 TB of capacity which is obviously not true, ...
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Pen & Windows Ink, how does the handedness setting affect pen input?

In Windows 10 Settings, there is a section for "Pen & Windows Ink". One of these settings asks you to select the hand that you write with. What exactly does this setting do? I searched ...
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NIC to NIC Connection Penetration Lab

I'm currently trying setup a penetration testing lab on two machines. One machine will run the vulnerable virtual machines and the other machine will be used as the attack machine running different ...
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Wacom Bamboo fun pen draws while hovering

My Wacom Bamboo fun pen is drawing while hovering over the tablet. I've tried reinstalling it and installing the drivers on a different computer but this doesn't fix the problem. Another questioner ...
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Huion h610 Pen Hovering And Still Drawing?

I've had my Huion h610 for almost a year now and it was working perfectly up until today. I don't know why it started to act up. I was just finishing up some line work and all of a sudden it starting ...
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"Draw" tab is missing in Word 2016

I have a UDB Pen Mouse device that I like to be able to draw with it on Word 2016. My PC is not a touch device but the USB pen mouse works nicely. My word 2016 is part of Office 365 ProPlus ...
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Is there a way to disable automatic movement of the pen input window?

I am using a Microsoft Surface 3 with the newer Surface Pen. When using the pen input window, it moves around of it's own accord. It's clearly intended to be "helpful" by moving itself where it thinks ...
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Lenovo Flex 3 Pen support

I just bought the Lenovo Flex 3, mainly for the touch screen. I am also hoping to pick up a pressure sensitive pen for use with Bamboo Paper and Adobe Illustrator. I am having problems finding ...
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How do I examine which kind of digitizer hardware for inductive stylus is built in my tablet?

I guess there are only 3 OEMs of these pen devices? this should be N-trig (MS Surface, Sony), Wacom (Galaxy Notes?) and Synaptics (Acer, Dell etc.). I just tested a new (noname) Windows Tablet with ...
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Can I change what double clicking the Surface pen button does?

I know about Is it possible to change the application opened by the Surface Pro 3's pen button? which covers what happens with a single click of the purple pen button. However I just read a review ...
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Surface pro pen won't work after upgrading to Windows 10

My surface pen stopped working after I upgraded my surface pro from windows 8.1 to windows 10. Any ideas what I need to do to get it to work again? I know that it is not a battery issue as it was ...
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How to make annotations over a PDF?

I use Foxit Pdf Reader and I also have a Trust pen tablet that I use mostly with a software called SmoothDraw. I was wondering if there is a way that I could open a pdf and write annotations over it ...
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How to recover data from a corrupted pen drive [duplicate]

My pen drive is unreadable, when I plug it in the computer it does not appear on the computer even dist 1 is also not shown. How can the data can be recovered.
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How to disable pen mode change on slow motion?

If I try to draw something carefully in OneNote, my pen stops drawing. I.e. when I start to draw and move pen slowly, some guesture triggers, round circle appears and the line I drew turns to ...
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Press and hold settings sense?

What is the sense of two different settings in Press and Hold Setting dialog? First called "speed", but also can be "short" and "long". Can something have "short" or "long" speed? If "long" speed ...
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Drawing dot in OneNote does not coincide with it's trace while using pen

While in draw mode, a mouse cursor turns to dot, which remain trace while drawing. It can be drawn both with mouse and pen. While drawing with pen, a trace appears slightly righter than a dot. This is ...
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How to set drawing automatically when using pen in OneNote?

I have Bamboo pen and am remember, that it was starting to draw automatically in MS One Note. But now pen acts exactly like mouse, i.e. I need to choose draw mode explicitly to draw with pen. How to ...
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What types of styluses would work on a Microsoft Surface?

I tried using a regular stylus on the Microsoft Surface, but that doesn't work; the screen is unresponsive. Is there a stylus available or does anyone already have good experiences with another type ...
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How to get pen input to draw?

I just got a crappy little Hyundai pen input module To use on a normal Windows 7 HP laptop, it works quite well with the Hyundai software, but that's in Chinese, and the input only stays on the screen ...
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Rotation problemo with the pen on x230 tablet and an external screen?

I have a funny problem. Normally when I have the screen rotated 180 on the laptop as I'm writing on it everything works just fine. But if I connect an external monitor that is oriented "normal", with ...
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why is my Bamboo pen always drawing and a yellow note pad appears?

I have had a Bamboo pen and touch tablet for a couple years but have not used it in a long time. Now that I'm trying to use it again it is behaving very strangely. It won't drag anything on my desktop,...
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How to disable context menu on long pen press?

I have wacom bamboo pen. When I am pressing it for a log time, circle animation appears and then context menu called. This makes impossible to draw something slowly. How to disable context menu call ...
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OneNote 2010 Pen Thickness

Can you choose any pen thickness in OneNote 2010? I think I remember being able to set a pen thickness in mm in OneNote 2007, but in OneNote 2010, the thickness selection is very limited.
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Digital Pen for Dell Laptop

I have Dell Inspiron laptop and I have just started using Photoshop. It is quite hard to draw using mouse so I was thinking of buying a digital pen. Do I need a special laptop with touch screen to ...
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Does the Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet's Pen have an Eraser?

I'm thinking about getting one of the cheaper Wacom tablets to start doing some "hobby"-ish digital art. Right now I think the Bamboo tablets are the best choice, especially the Pen only one, but ...
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Wacom Bamboo tablet drawing while hovering with pen [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Wacom Bamboo Fun pen draws even while hovering I have a new Wacom Bamboo Model MTE-450 tablet with pen. It's buttons are not broken. I have reinstalled the driver four times ...
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Connect a pen/thumb/flash drive through ethernet port

I want to connect a pendrive throuth the ethernet port on a linux OS. Is that possible ? I did find this on ebay, USB-male to ETHERNET-female, is this of any use?
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How do I turn off the little CTRL-SHIFT bubble that pops up on Windows 7 around my cursor?

I have a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet. When I press CTRL, SHIFT, or ALT, a little yellow bubble pops up near my cursor. This interfers with screenshots etc. Wacom has informed me that this is not a ...
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Wacom Bamboo Fun pen draws even while hovering

My Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet is only a few months old and I had not used the pen when I bought it. Its mouse has been working fine. When I used the pen recently it was stuck in the drawing mode all the ...
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