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Username: avvLyCWbyb59
Post Date: 2024-06-25 19:22:21

Dear Escape Motions, Will the next-version Rebelle 8.0 Linux supported, like Blender, TVPaint, Krita etc. without (wine - which is not supported pen tilt and pressure etc. than the others yes natively)? As I saw a lot of your customers wait for this feature like me as well. Thank you in advance.

Username: Vevo
Post Date: 2024-06-26 10:14:49

Hi avvLyCWbyb59, We will need to think about it. It is not as easy as it seems, there might be bugs, and supporting and taking care of three different versions (Windows, macOS, Linux) can cause time-consuming issues. We hear Linux users and will try our best to come up with the best solution.

Username: avvLyCWbyb59
Post Date: 2024-06-26 14:55:21

Yes that's true you need take care of them, although it's depend on what program language had been choosen. Qt, C, python etc. can be easier do, but to cope with different distributions can be challenged especially if they use wayland. Regarding the benchmark of rendering liinux is a really good choice and open free. I hope you will give a chance for this feature.

Username: nNPUBeIEhjSR
Post Date: 2024-07-09 03:12:06

Were it not for the bug in wine that messes up any pressure sensitivity, I would have purchased Rebelle already. The prefix scripts that come with Lutris set things up nicely for outstanding performance otherwise. I would be vastly interested in a native Linux build. It looks like Rebelle was built with QT5, which is very much at home in Linux so for at least that part shouldn't be too hard. Not to say a native build is an easy task, of course. If the former gets resolved somehow, I'd take that as a win allowing me to actually use the software... but I'd say the latter would be an incredible solution.

Username: orange
Post Date: 2024-08-03 14:24:28

Creating an AppImage of Rebelle would probably be the best solution when it comes to juggling different distributions of Linux. This way, users don't have to download a very specific distribution just to use Rebelle. AppImages work practically on any Linux distribution! Of course, that is easier said that done! :(

Username: Lithmariel
Post Date: 2024-09-26 00:14:24

I'd be happy if you just made a guide/gave support to making it work on Wine. At present pen pressure does not work but otherwise it runs great. Pleeeeeease!!

Username: sorn
Post Date: 2024-10-18 15:32:55

Oh, yes, please. An AppImage, whatever floats. I hardly use it since I work mostly on Linux (3D, texturing, animation). I'd really love to use it way more.

Username: rosagi
Post Date: 2025-03-24 17:50:55

In 2025 Rebelle is looking like my only real outlier app in an otherwise windows free existence, perhaps if token support could be provided by way of a workaround that would enable aforementioned pressure sensitivity/tilt in wine, it could be a way to gauge potential interest in a native linux version? Rebelle is far and away my preferred drawing paint app (where I in fact rely heavily on the rotation feature). A real shame at this stage as I have only begun to use rebelle hregularly in 2024 and have been moving away from windows for the past 5 years, relying mostly on linux native apps for professional design work.

Username: Veronika Escape Motions
Post Date: 2025-03-26 13:00:55

Hi [USER=213954]@nNPUBeIEhjSR[/USER] , Please check this thread: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.escapemotions.com/community/forum/t/41630/rebelle-7-on-linux/4[/URL] The user Graham GrahamX might have solved the issue with the pressure sensitivity on Wine.

Username: Higgins Dragon
Post Date: 2025-03-28 20:28:42

[QUOTE="Veronika Escape Motions, post: 20347, member: 6"] Hi avvLyCWbyb59, We will need to think about it. It is not as easy as it seems, there might be bugs, and supporting and taking care of three different versions (Windows, macOS, Linux) can cause time-consuming issues. We hear Linux users and will try our best to come up with the best solution. [/QUOTE] As a programmer for a day job, I know how porting is not easy. There will be bugs, that's how any development works. The good news is Rebelle the Qt framework, which was originally developed as a cross-platform toolkit (It originally was just Linux and Windows, Mac came later.) So a lot of work is already done, even if platform specifics need to be ironed out. Don't know if you can pass it along to your development team, but [URL='https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/']Flatpaks[/URL] have become a popular way to distribute Linux applications via [URL='https://docs.flathub.org/']Flathub[/URL]. [URL='https://github.com/AppImage']AppImages[/URL] are if you just want someone to download and double-click to open, and not use Flathub. The [URL='https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/']Freedesktop spec[/URL] is what the two major desktops use to define how to interact with the desktop environment (where to store config files, opening a file dialog, etc.) All these are ways of not having to worry about distributions, which greatly simplifies support. Failing that, the least effort approach would be to ensure pressure support works under Wine without having to install extra DLLs from an unofficial source. Or maybe work with GrahamX to include that support in Rebelle 8 since he already found a fix. That way you don't have to officially support Linux, but just offer an easier way for people to buy and use your app on it. I really enjoy using Rebelle Pro, and whether or not 8 supports Linux in some form will likely determine if I upgrade or remain using 7. It would be annoying--probably as annoying as us Linux users are to you! :) --to pay for an upgrade to have things break and have to wait until there's a solution.

Username: Graham GrahamX
Post Date: 2025-03-30 19:16:10

I would expect that the barrier to providing a native Linux version of Rebelle, is the additional burden of testing and end user support of a third platform. I'm hoping to contribute some work to Wine soon, to try fix/improve the tablet support. I've had a few things I've had to deal with early this year so I haven't been able to work on anything yet.

Username: AaronHarrisArt
Post Date: 2025-04-03 06:30:50

Hey Graham, what distro are you using? I'm seriously looking into jumping from windows and am curious about getting Rebelle to work properly. I have a Huion tablet that has linux drivers. Does your pen pressure/tilt fix work with bottles? Thanks!

Username: Graham GrahamX
Post Date: 2025-04-03 19:05:40

[USER=191302]@AaronHarrisArt[/USER] I'm currently using Kubuntu 22.04 (which is basically just Ubuntu). It's about to reach end of life so I need to move to a newer version soon. I tested Rebelle with the fix in Bottles and it worked as expected. I used the flatpak version but it should work with the non-flatpak version too. Each bottle is a separate wine prefix, so in order to copy the DLLs for the fix, you need to open the folder where the prefix is stored and then find the folder inside it where you installed Rebelle. In the bottle details view, there's a drop down menu in the header of the window, with an option to "Browse Files..." which will open your file browser in the "drive_c" folder. Configuring the override can be done directly in the settings (look for the "Options" heading then choose "Settings"). Scroll down to the "Compatibility" heading and choose "DLL Overrides". You can then just type[SIZE=5] [ICODE]wintab32[/ICODE] [/SIZE]in the box and hit enter. And of course, make sure that Rebelle is set to use wintab in the tablet preferences. One thing that irked me was that Rebelle takes a little longer to start up and close in bottles. I tried creating the bottle with different settings but it always took longer than just using wine directly. Not that big a deal if the GUI is more important.

Username: AaronHarrisArt
Post Date: 2025-04-04 08:40:50

Thanks Graham! That's pretty helpful. I've installed Ubuntu tonight and it runs really well on my laptop and so far, has run smoother than the windows 11 it came with. I've tested Krita and Blender with it tonight and am pretty pleased. I'll try out Rebelle this weekend.