If you want to have tablet support in gimp, apply this patch to the Portfile for gtk2 in Macports, and pull gimp or inkscape from Macports. If you don't know what this means, just bug whoever you get your binary version of gimp/inkscape from and tell them to compile gtk with '--with-xinput' configure option. --Jeremy /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports/x11/ gtk2 $ diff -Naurp Portfile.orig Portfile --- Portfile.orig 2008-09-04 01:47:13.000000000 -0700 +++ Portfile 2008-09-04 01:50:17.000000000 -0700 @@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ variant x11 conflicts quartz description } } + if {${os.platform} == "darwin" && [lindex [split ${os.version} .] 0] eq 9} { + configure.args-append --with-xinput + } + depends_lib-append port:xrender \ lib:libX11.6:xorg