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Tablet support
The tablet support in GTK+ for Windows is known to be broken and only partly usable.
If you have a drawing tablet, but think that the tablet support is too broken to be of any use, start the GIMP with the option --ignore-wintab. This means that your tablet's pen should work just like a mouse, i.e. no pressure or tilt sensitivity.
You will have problems using the menus with a tablet pen. This might eventually be fixed (especially if I get some help from some active tablet-using programmers), but a workaround is to use the pen button to choose a menu item, while keeping the menu active (and moving the cursor) by pressing and moving the pen.
I have no idea how well it works with more advanced tablets, such as the Wacom Intuos range. I only have a Wacom ArtPadII myself. There is code in there to handle tilt, but I have never been able to test it.
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