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Questions tagged [pen]

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How to disable context menu on long pen press?

I have wacom bamboo pen. When I am pressing it for a log time, circle animation appears and then context menu called. This makes impossible to draw something slowly. How to disable context menu call on long press? The pen has special button for…
Suzan Cioc
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Wacom Bamboo Fun pen draws even while hovering

My Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet is only a few months old and I had not used the pen when I bought it. Its mouse has been working fine. When I used the pen recently it was stuck in the drawing mode all the time, even while hovering! What I mean by this is…
Ashwin Nanjappa
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How do I turn off the little CTRL-SHIFT bubble that pops up on Windows 7 around my cursor?

I have a Wacom Bamboo pen tablet. When I press CTRL, SHIFT, or ALT, a little yellow bubble pops up near my cursor. This interfers with screenshots etc. Wacom has informed me that this is not a feature of the pen software but of Windows 7. Does…
Edward Tanguay
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What types of styluses would work on a Microsoft Surface?

I tried using a regular stylus on the Microsoft Surface, but that doesn't work; the screen is unresponsive. Is there a stylus available or does anyone already have good experiences with another type of stylus?
Adam
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Does the Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet's Pen have an Eraser?

I'm thinking about getting one of the cheaper Wacom tablets to start doing some "hobby"-ish digital art. Right now I think the Bamboo tablets are the best choice, especially the Pen only one, but after reading reviews it seems like the pen with the…
Vervious
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why is my Bamboo pen always drawing and a yellow note pad appears?

I have had a Bamboo pen and touch tablet for a couple years but have not used it in a long time. Now that I'm trying to use it again it is behaving very strangely. It won't drag anything on my desktop, the minute I try there is this yellow pad that…
cboi
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Windows 11 pen drawing over controls instead of interacting with them

I'm using an MPP2.0 pen (think Surface Pen) to interact with my Windows 11 device, and I'm having an issue where the entire area around text boxes and dropdown menus won't be interactable because Windows will think I'm trying to handwrite into the…
Dev
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Wacom Bamboo fun pen draws while hovering

My Wacom Bamboo fun pen is drawing while hovering over the tablet. I've tried reinstalling it and installing the drivers on a different computer but this doesn't fix the problem. Another questioner had the exact same problem, and the answer there…
flalamingi
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"Draw" tab is missing in Word 2016

I have a UDB Pen Mouse device that I like to be able to draw with it on Word 2016. My PC is not a touch device but the USB pen mouse works nicely. My word 2016 is part of Office 365 ProPlus installation. The problem is that the "Draw" tab shown…
Allan Xu
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Connect a pen/thumb/flash drive through ethernet port

I want to connect a pendrive throuth the ethernet port on a linux OS. Is that possible ? I did find this on ebay, USB-male to ETHERNET-female, is this of any use?
dhasu
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OneNote 2010 Pen Thickness

Can you choose any pen thickness in OneNote 2010? I think I remember being able to set a pen thickness in mm in OneNote 2007, but in OneNote 2010, the thickness selection is very limited.
Jason Gross
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Digital Pen for Dell Laptop

I have Dell Inspiron laptop and I have just started using Photoshop. It is quite hard to draw using mouse so I was thinking of buying a digital pen. Do I need a special laptop with touch screen to draw or how can I make it work?
john doe
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Stylus writing on its own, very likely software related

I have an HP Laptop (Spectre X360 to be exact, from late 2015) with Windows 10 64-bit installed and a resistive stylus that is specifically made for that series of laptops. Normally, if the tip of the stylus is brought closer to the screen, it acts…
Unrivalled confusion
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How to show actual usb pen size?

I've bought one of those cheap 2TB pen drives online, being aware that was almost surely a scam, but I still decided to do that. The pen shows actual 1.9 TB of capacity which is obviously not true, and I'm now running H2testw to see the actual…
Silvio
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Huion h610 Pen Hovering And Still Drawing?

I've had my Huion h610 for almost a year now and it was working perfectly up until today. I don't know why it started to act up. I was just finishing up some line work and all of a sudden it starting drawing with me just hovering. Now, I just…
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