Wacom Bamboo in Ubuntu 9.04

Today I got my Wacom Bamboo USB Tablet in from Newegg.  Installation in Jaunty was incredibly easy, I just plugged it in and the Wacom drivers were already installed and ready to go.  The corners of the tablet automatically mapped to the corners of the screen, which in some previous Ubuntu releases required a bit of editing to Xorg.conf.

I’ve really only messed with two apps so far, Gimp and Evernote.  Gimp is, of course, preinstalled in Ubuntu and allows pen input just fine, although it doesn’t automatically map the eraser to the Erase tool.

Evernote doesn’t have a native Linux version, but it runs quite well in Wine.  The only issue I’ve come across so far is that I cannot drag and drop files from Nautilus into a notebook.  My plan is to use this to handwrite notes for school, and I’ve already been typing my notes into Evernote for the last few days.  Evernote is nice because it automatically keeps your notes synced between multiple installations (for me, that’s Evernote/Wine Evernote/VistaVM and Evernote/W7) and also has a web interface for when I’m not at one of my computers.  This syncing allows me to drag files to Evernote either by opening a VM or remoting to my desktop and then they will automatically be synced back to the copy of Evernote I’m running in Wine.