{"id":1993,"date":"2021-07-04T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2022-10-30T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T14:17:16","slug":"using-a-wacom-pen-tablet-inside-virtualbox-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/en\/2021\/07\/04\/using-a-wacom-pen-tablet-inside-virtualbox-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Wacom pen tablet inside VirtualBox 6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have the tablet wacom intuos pen &amp; touch small CTH-480, which I wanted to use for photo editing in Adobe Lightroom. Since I work under Linux Mint 20, I have a virtual machine running Windows 10 and Lightroom Classic 10. Unfortunately, I got the pen to work as a mouse only by disabling it as an input device, which prevents the buttons from being configurable in the Wacom Desktop Center app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-from-2021-07-04-14-40-48-1024x418.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-from-2021-07-04-14-40-48-1024x418.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-from-2021-07-04-14-40-48-300x122.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-from-2021-07-04-14-40-48-1536x627.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-from-2021-07-04-14-40-48-1568x640.png 1568w, https:\/\/www.speich.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screenshot-from-2021-07-04-14-40-48.png 1595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Screenshot showing the Devices menu of VirtualBox. To use the pen as a mouse, I needed to disable the Wacom tablet in the USB settings. Unfortunately, this prevents detection by the Wacom Desktop Center app and as a consequence the buttons on the tablet can&#8217;t be configured.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I turn the tablet in the USB settings on, the Wacom Desktop Center properly detects the tablet, but movements of the pen are not translated into mouse pointer movements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the tablet wacom intuos pen &amp; touch small CTH-480, which I wanted to use for photo editing in Adobe Lightroom. Since I work under Linux Mint 20, I have a virtual machine running Windows 10 and Lightroom Classic 10. Unfortunately, I got the pen to work as a mouse only by disabling it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/en\/2021\/07\/04\/using-a-wacom-pen-tablet-inside-virtualbox-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using a Wacom pen tablet inside VirtualBox 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,5],"tags":[256,54,288,92],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-photography","tag-lightroom","tag-linux-mint","tag-pen-tablet","tag-virtualbox","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1997,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/1997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speich.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}