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Using Tablet PCs
openSUSE® comes with support for Tablet PCs. In the following, learn how to install
and congure your Tablet PC and discover some useful Linux* applications which
accept input from digital pens.
The following Tablet PCs are supported:
• Tablet PCs with serial and USB Wacom tablet (pen based), touch-screen or multi-
touch devices.
• Tablet PCs with FinePoint devices, such as Gateway C210X/M280E/CX2724 or HP
Compaq TC1000.
• Tablet PCs with touch screen devices, such as Asus R2H, Clevo TN120R, Fujitsu
Siemens Computers P-Series, LG C1, Samsung Q1/Q1-Ultra.
After you have installed the Tablet PC packages and congured your digitizer correctly,
input with the pen (also called a stylus) can be used for the following actions and appli-
cations:
• Logging in to KDM or GDM
• Unlocking your screen on the KDE and GNOME desktops
• Actions that can also be triggered by other pointing devices (such as mouse or touch
pad), for example, moving the cursor on the screen, starting applications, closing,
resizing and moving windows, shifting window focus and dragging and dropping
objects
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