Installing OTD.Backport

Summary

Windows

From the Plugin Manager

  • Install OTD.Backport from Plugins > Plugin Manager
  • Go to Tools > OTD.Backport
  • Check the Enable box
  • Click Apply
  • Do Tablets > Detect tablet
  • Set your Display & Tablet Area
  • Click on Save and you're set!

Manual Install

  • Get the latest release from Here
  • Drag & Drop the Downloaded .zip file as is in the Plugin Manager
  • Go to Tools > OTD.Backport
  • Check the Enable box
  • Click Apply
  • Do Tablets > Detect tablet
  • Set your Display & Tablet Area
  • Click on Save and you're set!

Linux

Since Users don't have write permissions to /usr/share by default, the plugin is hardcoded to automatically throw an error when linux is detected.

You will have to update the tablets configurations manually by downloading the release from Github, Extracting the content to a separate folder then moving files using root priviledges.

From the Plugin Manager

  • Install OTD.Backport from Plugins > Plugin Manager
  • Get the latest release from Here
  • Extract the content of the Downloaded .zip file in a separate folder
  • Update the content of usr/share/OpenTabletDriver/Configurations using the newly extract Configurations folder (this is usually done using sudo cp [location] /usr/share/OpenTabletDriver/Configurations)
  • Do Tablets > Detect tablet
  • Set your Display & Tablet Area
  • Click on Save and you're set!

Manual Install

  • Get the latest release from Here
  • Drag & Drop the Downloaded .zip file as is in the Plugin Manager
  • Extract the content of the Downloaded .zip file in a separate folder
  • Update the content of usr/share/OpenTabletDriver/Configurations using the newly extract Configurations folder (this is usually done using sudo cp [location] /usr/share/OpenTabletDriver/Configurations)
  • Do Tablets > Detect tablet
  • Set your Display & Tablet Area
  • Click on Save and you're set!

MacOS

It is possible that the Configurations folder update fail as the plugin is untested on MacOS

From the Plugin Manager

  • Install OTD.Backport from Plugins > Plugin Manager
  • Go to Tools > OTD.Backport
  • Check the Enable box
  • Click Apply
  • Do Tablets > Detect tablet
  • Set your Display & Tablet Area
  • Click on Save and you're set!

Manual Install

  • Get the latest release from Here
  • Drag & Drop the Downloaded .zip file as is in the Plugin Manager
  • Extract the content of the Downloaded .zip file in a separate folder
  • Update the content of ~/Library/Application Support/OpenTabletDriver/Configurations using the newly extract Configurations folder (this is usually done using sudo cp [location] ~/Library/Application Support/OpenTabletDriver/Configurations)
  • Do Tablets > Detect tablet
  • Set your Display & Tablet Area
  • Click on Save and you're set!