Windows driver feature request: Windows Precision Touchpad or touchscreen events for screenless touch enabled tablets

Paul Frank

• 13/03/2025 17:57

Hi.

I have been using touch input on a Cintiq Pro 13 and it feels great - the apps recognize the tablet as any other touchscreen and I can make use of custom app touch gestures in various apps just fine.

Sadly, I can't say the same for screenless tablets - the experience on Intuos Pro and Cintiq Pro 13 in tablet mode (screen off) isn't as great. The main issues being

• Touch gestures in Wacom Tablet Properties seem to send keystrokes to apps instead of touchpad events, making zooming or rotating choppy in any app.
• Pointer speed and acceleration cannot be precisely adjusted, making it impossible to tweak it to feel like other windows touchpads
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I'd like to request a driver implementation of Windows Precision Touchpad API, making the touch input of wacom tablets feel similar to any other modern touchpad on a windows laptop. This would allow

• Use of built-in windows touchpad gestures
• Custom touch gestures set in windows settings
• Smooth rotation and zooming, as apps would handle the touch input of the wacom tablet as any other modern touchpad
• Custom touchpad gestures implemented in apps
• May attract some users just looking for massive touchpads that feel natural
• It may improve how touch feels in general

I'm hoping it won't be a hardware issue as wacom tablets can handle multi finger touch just fine. Some old Windows 8 era Lenovo Thinkpad laptops got a touchpad driver update that has enabled precision touchpad api when it was later introduced in Windows 10, hinting it may be possible with existing hardware.

Alternatively, I'd like to request a toggle to treat touch input on screenless tablet as a touchscreen input, just like on Cintiq with screen turned on - this would enable touch gestures in apps.

Thank you

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  Caio Silveira

  • 18/06/2025 20:34

  Hi, i'm facing similar frustrations as you, i just bought an intuos pro s, and it works lovely on my linux machine, i can use it just like a touchpad with all the settings and features a normal touchpad would have, however, i can't get this on windows 11, as it seems that the touch features are all within wacom's driver, so all features must be implemented by them.
  
  That's really frustrating because my laptop's touchpad can do horizontal scrolling, and my mouse have a horizontal scrolling wheel, but my drawing tablet with multitouch can't do a native horizontal scroll with two fingers

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