Troubleshoot pen moving pointer on the wrong display

Overview

If your pen is working on your tablet, but it is moving the pointer on the wrong display it is an easy problem to fix. Usually this is a problem with pen tablets (screenless tablets) but it can also occur with pen displays

Summary of fix

Overall: You need to go to your tablet driver and change which display the tablet's active area is mapped to.

Instructions

For Wacom:

• For pen tablets: In the Wacom Tablet Properties app, it will be under the Mapping tab, the Calibration tab

• For pen displays:

  • In the Wacom Center app > Advanced > Advanced Settings > change Assigned display to your tablet

For Huion:

• In the HuionTablet app, it will be under the a tab called Working Area

For XP-Pen:

• In the XP-Pen Pentablet app, it will be under the Screen tab