12-28-2021, 02:30 PM
Quote: need some help with drawing a straight line with a stylus using shift.....upon releasing shift there is no line
It is a different way of working than with a mouse. Your tablet (screen ?) should have a hover distance, the amount off the drawing surface when the pen does not register. Then (usually) touching the drawing surface with the pen = a left mouse click.
This is my tablet set up, very conventional. https://i.imgur.com/kJdHyvU.jpg
Not easy to demo, but look at the bottom of the Gimp window, with the pen inactive, (well away from the surface) it will show the layer name, as the pen gets near the surface the message changes, for the paint tool it says "Click to paint...."
For a straight line.
Touching the surface is a click and fixes the start or end point. For the straight line, touch the pen on surface (= click), hold the pen a little away from the surface, move the cursor to the end point, hold the shift key down, touch the surface (= click)
example: https://i.imgur.com/KsCrqgc.mp4