There are quite a few details as to how GIMP is behaving on my computer, so skip to the TL:DR if you want a summary.
I'm currently using GIMP 2.8.22 on a windows 8.1 64-bit installation on my laptop with a Turcom 8" x 6" tablet connected. The primary issue is with drawing; I cannot draw in GIMP with the pen tablet. I can draw with the mouse, but when I put the pen on the tablet, I can only place a dot. Moving the pen around still moves around the cursor, but it doesn't actually draw. If I drag the cursor to one of the toolbox areas of the screen while holding the tablet down (like drawing), it draws a straight line from where I started to where the cursor ended on the toolbox section (I use single window mode). It seems to pick up on the pressure with which I jab the tablet with (I can place light or dark dots), but obviously I want to do more than just place dots. I have already gone into the input configuration windows and set the tablet to use the "screen" and all of the features of the pen are configured in the driver. The pen works in the other software I use, but not in GIMP. I tried GIMP 2.6.8, and it just worked right after installation; I didn't need to change anything. Am I missing something?
As for the movement issues, it seems that nearly every movement command that is issued by not directly clicking on the scroll bar (Middle click to pan, scroll wheel, and zooming with ctrl) do not work until some amount of time has passed with the drawing window being active (about 5 seconds?) or until one of the scroll bars has been clicked. Because middle clicking is the only way I would move around when using the pen tablet, this is a must-have feature that needs to work reliably.
I feel like both of these issues are being caused by some weird active window shenanigans, but that's about as much as I can think of. It just doesn't work.
GIMP version: 2.8.22
Operating system: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Pen Tablet: Turcom TS-6608N
Computer: Lenovo Y500 Laptop
TL;DR: I have set up the drawing tablet to work in GIMP, but it only places dots and cannot make strokes. The mouse can. In addition, the keyboard and mouse driven movement controls (pan, scroll, zoom) don't work until I have physically clicked on the scroll bar.
I'm currently using GIMP 2.8.22 on a windows 8.1 64-bit installation on my laptop with a Turcom 8" x 6" tablet connected. The primary issue is with drawing; I cannot draw in GIMP with the pen tablet. I can draw with the mouse, but when I put the pen on the tablet, I can only place a dot. Moving the pen around still moves around the cursor, but it doesn't actually draw. If I drag the cursor to one of the toolbox areas of the screen while holding the tablet down (like drawing), it draws a straight line from where I started to where the cursor ended on the toolbox section (I use single window mode). It seems to pick up on the pressure with which I jab the tablet with (I can place light or dark dots), but obviously I want to do more than just place dots. I have already gone into the input configuration windows and set the tablet to use the "screen" and all of the features of the pen are configured in the driver. The pen works in the other software I use, but not in GIMP. I tried GIMP 2.6.8, and it just worked right after installation; I didn't need to change anything. Am I missing something?
As for the movement issues, it seems that nearly every movement command that is issued by not directly clicking on the scroll bar (Middle click to pan, scroll wheel, and zooming with ctrl) do not work until some amount of time has passed with the drawing window being active (about 5 seconds?) or until one of the scroll bars has been clicked. Because middle clicking is the only way I would move around when using the pen tablet, this is a must-have feature that needs to work reliably.
I feel like both of these issues are being caused by some weird active window shenanigans, but that's about as much as I can think of. It just doesn't work.
GIMP version: 2.8.22
Operating system: Windows 8.1 64-bit
Pen Tablet: Turcom TS-6608N
Computer: Lenovo Y500 Laptop
TL;DR: I have set up the drawing tablet to work in GIMP, but it only places dots and cannot make strokes. The mouse can. In addition, the keyboard and mouse driven movement controls (pan, scroll, zoom) don't work until I have physically clicked on the scroll bar.