Re: [Gimp-user] Getting my tablet to work with GIMP

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 18:25 +0900, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 4:03 AM, SleepyBear <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
>
> > I had to reinstall my tablet drivers after something stupid happened and
> > now
> > GIMP (I have 2.6.8) won't recognise it.
> >
> > It doesn't show up in the Input Devices thing either.
> additionally to what Michael said, I also remind that you have to connect
> the tablet *before* starting GIMP for the program to see it. That's a
> common mistake of users (though I certainly don't blame them. I think this
> should be improved on our side. Maybe someday…).

GTK+ 3.x has complete hotplug support and GIMP's gtk3-port
branch uses it. This is impossible in GTK+ 2.x.

--Mitch