How can I use my linux tablet as input method for my laptop?

3 years ago by tubbadu to c/linux

Hello! I have a 2in1 reversible tablet with touchscreen and stylus, running fedora. My laptop runs EndeavourOS. both with wayland session.
I'd like to use my tablet as input method, in order to use the stylus on my laptop. I tried Weylus, and it is great for screen mirroring and casual clicks, but using the stylus (perhaps it's my wifi's fault) was way too laggy, almost unusable. Are there other tools, similar to this, that perhaps work with a usb cable or something like this? in order to speed things up. My tablet is very potato-ish, very slow at running apps and so, but once the apps are loaded they works fluently. both the laptop and the tablet runs KDE.

thanks in advance!

yesbot 20 points 3 years ago

Remote input in KDEconnect, maybe.

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yum13241 12 points 3 years ago

KDE Connect? (It's not KDE exclusive)

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jet 8 points 3 years ago

Synergy https://github.com/symless

share keyboard video and mouse across computers, they have android and ios

its a paid open source model...

There is a fork called barrier, which is a few years old, but doesn't have any closed source bits.

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dallen 2 points 3 years ago

Video?

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BuddyTheBeefalo 7 points 3 years ago

maybe Synergy or KDE Connect

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tubbadu 11 points 3 years ago

I can use KDE connect it to send mouse click event, but the stylus and the touchscreen doesn't seem to be supported. Am I missing something?

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canis_majoris 6 points 3 years ago

I second KDE Connect, especially if you're already invested in the KDE ecosystem.

I have it on my phone and it allows me to do remote access, in addition to using the device as an input. It also does handoff stuff like letting you answer your texts on your desktop, and I find that feature set works more consistently than Your Phone by MS.

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tubbadu 3 points 3 years ago

I already use it on my android smartphone, but here I need something to share touchscreen and stylus between two linux devices

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db2 3 points 3 years ago

XMouse is what I use.

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ebd6a8c9051028dc1607 4 points 3 years ago

you can use netevent. it will expose your tablet input directly to your host computer by uinput

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SomeBoyo 3 points 3 years ago

https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus maybe

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QuazarOmega 1 point 3 years ago

You could still be able to use it wired, I do it with my Android tablet via USB, following the instructions in the repo: https://github.com/H-M-H/Weylus/issues/71

Maybe the same could be done via Ethernet for you? Since it's a Linux device instead

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tubbadu 1 point 3 years ago

replying to @jet@hackertalks.com as the direct reply is stuck in a loading loop:

in the website it's written

keyboard, mouse, or trackpad

but no words about touchscreen and stylus. Is it supported?

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infeeeee 2 points 3 years ago

What do you mean by touchscreen and stylus? Do you want to transfer pressure data? Do you want to see the screen of the pc on the tablet?

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jet 1 point 3 years ago

not sure, they have repos for android and ios

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