Acer Active Pen configuration

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Hi there,

I have an Acer Travelmate B118 running endless os. I also got an Acer Active Pen. I cannot use it as an input method as there is no option to swith to handwriting. In fact, it is only working as a mouse. Is there a way to configure it?
The software “acer hover” only exists for windows.
thanks!

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@csab1915

Settings>Tablet Wacom

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Thanks. I tried that already. Unfortunately, it does not detect the Acer
Active Stylus…

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@csab1915
Something that would help us a lot to understand the problem would be this:

  1. Open the application called ‘Terminal’
  2. In this application run the command:

eos-diagnostics

  1. The above command will create a file with the information of your system (example: eos-diagnostic-160614_111731_UTC + 0100.txt); Send us this file so we can analyze and see a possible solution
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Thanks, file is attached. Would be great if you had any idea how I could
add handwriting as an input method. I guess that would solve it. Or if
you had an idea how I could configure the Acer Pen on the settings. many
thanks

eos-diagnostic-180211_131328_UTC+0100.txt (267 KB)

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It is unfortunate but Linux overall has very poor support for handwriting. While OCR was developed in the public domain, handwriting recognition has always been proprietary and heavily patented. Over the years a couple different companies has created commercial handwriting software for Linux, but it was never successful.

I have an HP tablet that uses an active pen. It is really only useful as mouse input. You can use it for drawing and painting using applications like Inkscape and Gimp, but generally it is not useful for hand writing notes. There was a Journal application similar to Windows Journal, but I do not think there has been any active development in some time and as far as I know there is no way to install or use it with Endless.

bill

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Bill, thanks a lot for your information! I had the same impression. I
guess it has to with the fact that Linux/Ubuntu does not run on tablets
usually.