You'll never be satisfied with the results. Sure, you can use a touchscreen to draw and to create artwork, but asking it to replace a Wacom tablet is like asking finger-painting to replace the whole range of artists' paintbrushes.
Samsung's Note series has a pretty advanced stylus, and it makes a nice drawing tool, but it still lacks the advanced features like angle sensitivity. It can't react to you hovering over it, to the natural pressure changes you get over the course of a stroke, or to the angle. You can wield the stylus like a calligraphy pen, an airbrush, or anything in between.Ī capacitive touchscreen such as you get on a Nexus 7 is designed to detect fat blobs like finger tips. A drawing tablet has a resolution of a fraction of a millimetre. The stylus is also sensitive to the angle you hold it at, and the tablet can detect when the stylus is hovering above the tablet, even with no contact. Drawing tablets use a stylus with one or two pressure-sensitive tips and several buttons. Sway).A touchscreen tablet is not like a Wacom tablet. You'll also need xdg-desktop-portal-gtk for GNOME, xdg-desktop-portal-kde for KDE Plasma, and xdg-desktop-portal-wlr for wlroots-based compositors (e.g.
To use Weylus on Wayland, you'll need to install PipeWire and xdg-desktop-portal (GStreamer is also needed, but that should already be installed FFmpeg is also used, but you don't need to install it since it's shipped with Weylus). Things that don't work on Wayland include input mapping for windows, displaying proper window names, and capturing the cursor. It's also worth noting that Weylus works best with X11, but it does have experimental Wayland support. Screen mirroring is also faster if you're using Linux.
It allows using a stylus / pen (supports pressure and tilt), multi-touch, capturing specific windows and only drawing to them, and you can use the tablet or phone as a second screen (extend your current desktop screen). Weylus lets you control your mouse with a tablet or phone, mirror the desktop screen to a tablet, and send keyboard input, all with optional hardware-accelerated video encoding (on Linux, VAAPI and NVENC are available for macOS there's only Videotoolbox, while on Windows it can use NVENC or Microsoft's MediaFoundation).įor Linux, Weylus comes with even more features. Firefox 80+) running on your phone or tablet, and have both the desktop and tablet / phone on the same network. To use a phone or tablet as a graphic tablet / touch screen, all you need is to install Weylus on your desktop, have a modern web browser (e.g. It's available for Linux, Microsoft Windows and macOS. Weylus is a tool similar to the macOS & iPad Sidecar feature, which turns your tablet or mobile phone into a graphic tablet / touch screen, and allows mirroring or extending the desktop screen to a phone or tablet.
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