Bug 488426 - Unable to move tablet cursor between screens on Wayland
Summary: Unable to move tablet cursor between screens on Wayland
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: input (show other bugs)
Version: 6.0.5
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Keywords: multiscreen
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Reported: 2024-06-12 18:49 UTC by Kath
Modified: 2024-06-20 13:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Kath 2024-06-12 18:49:15 UTC
SUMMARY

It is currently not possible, solely using a tablet, to move the cursor between screens when the tablet is set to "Follow the active screen". 

The changes to the Active Screen logic in Plasma 6 (where it now follows the cursor position) means the tablet cursor is stuck on one screen, as the tablet is mapped to the boundaries of the screen and therefore the cursor cannot leave the screen to make another one active. Instead a mouse has to be used to move the cursor to another screen, which will change the target screen for the tablet.

Prior to Plasma 6, it was possible to Alt+Tab to an application on another screen to move the tablet cursor to that screen. This is no longer possible. 

Meanwhile in X11 there was a dedicated shortcut for "Toggle between all screens". To my knowledge this does not exist on Wayland.

I'm not sure what the best solution for this is, but there should be a way to switch screens without having to use another device, or manually setting the target screen in the kcm every time.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Kernel Version: 6.8.11-300.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × Intel® Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 31.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Tablet: Wacom Intuos Draw Small -  CTH-490
Comment 1 Kath 2024-06-20 13:31:24 UTC
As of Plasma 6.1, this has been fixed - The tablet moves correctly when using Alt-Tab and my tablet mapping is moved alongside it. There are also functional shortcuts to manually change the target display via kwin shortcuts which work perfectly as well.

Thank you for the work and fixes for this!