Pen buttons

Number of buttons

• The vast majority of drawing tablet pens have two buttons.

• Though some consumer Wacom models have only a single button.

• A few pens have three buttons - for example a Wacom Pro Pen 3

Default two buttons configuration

These are the default settings for Wacom pens with two buttons.

• lower button (the one closer to the nib) set to perform a mouse right-click

• upper button (the one further away from the nib) set to perform a mouse left double-click

Other configurations for pen buttons

Other things people configure their buttons to do:

• a CTRL-Z keypress to perform UNDO

• SPACE key - in many apps, SPACE + dragging pen will pan the drawing canvas

• CTRL+SPACE - in many apps, this will zoom into and out of the canvas (Krita, Photoshop, Illustrator)