a. "Paint" Tool (Brush)

The Paint Brush tool lets you draw freehand, using various brushes (chosen in the Selector on the right) and colors (chosen in the Color palette towards the bottom).

If you hold the mouse button down, and move the mouse, it will draw as you move.

Some brushes are animated — they change their shape as you draw them. A good example of this is the vines brush that ships with Tux Paint. These brushes will have a small "filmstrip" icon drawn on their Selector buttons.

Other brushes are directional — they will draw a different shape depending on what direction you are painting with them. An example of this is the arrow brush that ships with Tux Paint. These brushes have a small 8-way arrow icon drawn on their Selector buttons.

Finally, some brushes can be both direction and animated. Examples of this are the cat and squirrel brushes that ship with Tux Paint. These brushes will have both the "filmstrip" and 8-way arrow icons.

As you draw, a sound is played. The bigger the brush, the lower the pitch.

Brush Spacing

The space between each position where a brush is applied to the canvas can vary. Some brushes (such as the footprints and flower) are spaced, by default, far enough apart that they don't overlap. Other brushes (such as the basic circular ones) are spaced closely, so they make a continuous stroke.

The default spacing of brushes may be overridden using by clicking within the triangular-shaped series of bars at the bottom right; the larger the bar, the wider the spacing. Brush spacing affects both tools that use the brushes: the "Paint" tool and the "Lines" tool.

⚙ Note: If the "nobrushspacing" option is set, Tux Paint won't display the brush spacing controls. See the "Options" documentation.

b."Stamp" Tool (Rubber Stamps)

The Stamp tool is like a set of rubber stamps or stickers. It lets you paste pre-drawn or photographic images (like a picture of a horse, or a tree, or the moon) in your picture.

As you move the mouse around the canvas, an outline follows the mouse, showing where the stamp will be placed, and how big it will be. Click on the canvas where you wish to place the stamp.

Stamp Categories

There can be numerous categories of stamps (e.g., animals, plants, outer space, vehicles, people, etc.). Use the Left and Right arrows near the bottom of the Selector to cycle through the collections.

Stamp Rotation

Using the rotation toggle button near the bottom right, you can enable a rotation step when placing stamps. Once you've placed the stamp, choose the angle to rotate it by moving the mouse around the canvas. Click the mouse button again and the stamp will be added to the drawing.

⚙ Note: If "stamp rotation" option is disabled, the stamp will be drawn on the canvas when you let go of the mouse button. (There's no rotation step.) See the "Options" documentation to learn about the "stamp rotation" ("stamprotation") option.

📜 Note: The stamp rotation feature was added to Tux Paint in version 0.9.29.

Stamp Controls

Prior to 'stamping' an image onto your drawing, various effects can sometimes be applied (depending on the stamp):

• Some stamps can be colored or tinted. If the color palette below the canvas is activated, you can click the colors to change the tint or color of the stamp before placing it in the picture.
• Stamps can be shrunk and expanded, by clicking within the triangular-shaped series of bars at the bottom right; the larger the bar, the larger the stamp will appear in your picture.
• Many stamps may be flipped vertically, or displayed as a mirror-image, using the control buttons at the bottom right.

⚙ Note: If the "nostampcontrols" option is set, Tux Paint won't display the Rotation, Mirror, Flip, or sizing controls for stamps. See the "Options" documentation.

Stamp Sounds

Different stamps can have different sound effects and/or descriptive (spoken) sounds. Buttons in the Help Area at the lower left (near Tux, the Linux penguin) allow you to re-play the sound effects and descriptive sounds for the currently-selected stamp.

c."Lines" Tool

This tool lets you draw straight lines using the various brushes and colors you normally use with the Paint Brush.

Click the mouse and hold it to choose the starting point of the line. As you move the mouse around, a thin 'rubber-band' line will show where the line will be drawn. At the bottom, you'll see the angle of your line, in degrees. A line going straight to the right is 0°, a line going straight up is 90°, a line going straight left is 180°, a line going straight down is 270°, and so on.

Let go of the mouse to complete the line. A "sproing!" sound will play.

Some brushes are animated, and will show a pattern of shapes along the line. Others are directional, and will show a different shape depending on the angle of the brush. And finally some are both animated and directional. See "Paint", above, to learn more.

Different brushes have different spacing, leaving either a series of individual shapes, or a continuous stroke of the brush shape. Brush spacing may be adjusted. See the brush spacing section of the "Paint" tool, above, to learn more.

d."Shapes" Tool

This tool lets you draw some simple filled, and un-filled shapes.

Select a shape from the selector on the right (circle, square, oval, etc.).

Use the options at the bottom right to choose the shape tool's behavior:

Shapes from center

The shape will expand from where you initially clicked, and will be centered around that position.

📜 This was Tux Paint's only behavior through version 0.9.24.)

Shapes from corner

The shape will extend with one corner starting from where you initially clicked. This is the default method of most other traditional drawing software.

📜 This option was added starting with Tux Paint version 0.9.25.

⚙ Note: If shape controls are disabled (e.g., with the "noshapecontrols" option), the controls will not be presented, and the "shapes from center" method will be used.

In the canvas, click the mouse and hold it to stretch the shape out from where you clicked. Some shapes can change proportion (e.g., rectangle and oval may be wider than tall, or taller than wide), others cannot (e.g., square and circle).

For shapes that can change proportion, the aspect ratio of the shape will be shown at the bottom. For example: "1:1" will be shown if it is "square" (as tall as it is wide); "2:1" if it is either twice as wide as it is tall, or twice as tall as it is wide; and so on.

Let go of the mouse when you're done stretching.

Normal Shapes Mode

Now you can move the mouse around the canvas to rotate the shape. The angle your shape is rotated will be shown at the bottom, in degrees (similar to the "Lines" tool, described above).

Click the mouse button again and the shape will be drawn in the current color.

Simple Shapes Mode

If the "simple shapes" option is enabled, the shape will be drawn on the canvas when you let go of the mouse button. (There's no rotation step.)

⚙ See the "Options" documentation to learn about the "simple shapes" ("simpleshapes") option.

e."Text" and "Label" Tools

Choose a font (from the 'Letters' available on the right) and a color (from the color palette near the bottom). You may also apply a bold, and/or an italic styling effect to the text. Click on the screen and a cursor will appear. Type text and it will show up on the screen. (You can change the font, color, and styling while entering the text, before it is applied to the canvas.)

Press [Enter] or [Return] and the text will be drawn onto the picture and the cursor will move down one line.

Alternatively, press [Tab] and the text will be drawn onto the picture, but the cursor will move to the right of the text, rather than down a line, and to the left. (This can be useful to create a line of text with mixed colors, fonts, styles and sizes.)

Clicking elsewhere in the picture while the text entry is still active causes the current line of text to move to that location (where you can continue editing it).

"Text" versus "Label"

The Text tool is the original text-entry tool in Tux Paint. Text entered using this tool can't be modified or moved later, since it becomes part of the drawing. However, because the text becomes part of the picture, it can be drawn over or modified using Magic tool effects (e.g., smudged, tinted, embossed, etc.)

When using the Label tool (which was added to Tux Paint in version 0.9.22), the text 'floats' over the image, and the details of the label (the text, the position of the label, the font choice and the color) get stored separately. This allows the label to be repositioned or edited later.

To edit a label, click the label selection button. All labels in the drawing will appear highlighted. Click one — or use the [Tab] key to cycle through all the labels, and the [Enter] or [Return] key to select one — and you may then edit the label. (Use they [Backspace] key to erase characters, and other keys to add text to the label; click in the canvas to reposition the label; click in the palette to change the color of the text in the label; etc.)

You may "apply" a label to the canvas, painting the text into the picture as if it had been added using the Text tool, by clicking the label application button. (This feature was added in Tux Paint version 0.9.28.) All labels in the drawing will appear highlighted, and you select one just as you do when selecting a label to edit. The chosen label will be removed, and the text will be added directly to the canvas.

⚙ The Label tool can be disabled (e.g., by selecting "Disable 'Label' Tool" in Tux Paint Config. or running Tux Paint with the "nolabel" option).

International Character Input

Tux Paint allows inputting characters in different languages. Most Latin characters (A-Z, ñ, è, etc.) can by entered directly. Some languages require that Tux Paint be switched into an alternate input mode before entering, and some characters must be composed using numerous keypresses.

When Tux Paint's locale is set to one of the languages that provide alternate input modes, a key is used to cycle through normal (Latin character) and locale-specific mode or modes.

Currently supported locales, the input methods available, and the key to toggle or cycle modes, are listed below.

• Japanese — Romanized Hiragana and Romanized Katakana — right [Alt] key or left [Alt] key
• Korean — Hangul 2-Bul — right [Alt] key or left [Alt] key
• Traditional Chinese — right [Alt] key or left [Alt] key
• Thai — right [Alt] key

💡 Note: Many fonts do not include all characters for all languages, so sometimes you'll need to change fonts to see the characters you're trying to type.

On-screen Keyboard

An optional on-screen keyboard is available for the Text and Label tools, which can provide a variety of layouts and character composition (e.g., composing "a" and "e" into "æ").

⚙ See the "Options" and "Extending Tux Paint" documentation for more information.

f."Fill" Tool

The 'Fill' tool 'flood-fills' a contiguous area of your drawing with a color of your choice. Three fill options are offered:

• Solid — click once to fill an area with a solid color.
• Brush — click and drag to fill an area with a solid color using freehand painting.
• Linear — click and then drag to fill the area with color that fades away (a gradient) towards where you drag the mouse.
• Radial — click once to fill an area with a color that fades away (a gradient) radially, centered on where you clicked.
• Shaped — click once to fill an area with a color that fades away (a gradient), following the contours of the shape you're filling.
• Eraser — click once to erase an area, exposing the solid color background, or starter or template background image, upon which the drawing was based. (See Available Tools > Drawing Tools > "Eraser" Tool and Other Controls > 'Starter' & Template Images.)

📜 Note: Prior to Tux Paint 0.9.24, "Fill" was a Magic tool (see below). Prior to Tux Paint 0.9.26, the "Fill" tool only offered the 'Solid' method of filling. 'Shaped' fill was introduced in Tux Paint 0.9.29.

g."Magic" Tool (Special Effects)

The Magic tool is actually a set of special tools. Select one of the 'magic' effects from the selector on the right. Then, depending on the tool, you can either click and drag around the picture, and/or simply click the picture once, to apply the effect.

The Magic Tools

See the instructions for each Magic tool (in the 'magic-docs' folder).

Magic Controls

If the tool can be used by clicking and dragging, a 'painting' button will be available on the left, below the list of Magic tools on the right side of the screen. If the tool can affect the entire picture at once, an 'entire picture' button will be available on the right.

⚙ Note: If the "nomagiccontrols" option is set, Tux Paint won't display the painting or entire picture controls. See the "Options" documentation.

💡 If the magic controls are disabled, the Magic plugin may make separate tools available, one for painting and one that affects the entire pictre.

Magic Sizing

Some tools offer different sizing options. If so, a slider will appear at the bottom right side of the screen. This may affect the radius of a special effect (e.g., Darken) or painted object (e.g., Patterns), or other attributes (e.g., large versus small Brick shapes).

⚙ Note: If the "nomagicsizes" option is set, Tux Paint won't display the sizing controls. See the "Options" documentation.

💡 If the sizing option is disabled, the Magic plugin may simply offer a default size (e.g., Patterns), or it may make separate tools available with different pre-set sizes (e.g., Bricks and Googly Eyes).

📜 This option was added starting with Tux Paint version 0.9.30.

⚙ Note: If the "ungroupmagictools" option is set, Tux Paint won't split Magic tools into groups of related tools, and instead present them all as one large list. See the "Options" documentation.

h."Eraser" Tool

This tool works similarly to the Paint Brush. Wherever you click (or click and drag), things you've added to your drawing will be erased, exposing the background that you chose when you started the drawing, be it a solid color, the background of a 'Starter' image, or a 'Template' image. (See Available Tools > Other Controls > "New" Command.)

A number of eraser types are available, each offering multiple sizes are available:

• Square — Square-shaped erasers that completely remove parts of your drawing.
• Circle (solid) — Circle-shaped erasers that completely remove parts of your drawing.
• Fuzzy-edged Circle — Circle-shaped erasers with soft edges that blend with the background.
• Transparent Circle — Circle-shaped erasers that blend your drawing with the background. Release and click again to expose more and more of the background.

As you move the mouse around, an outline follows the pointer, showing what part of the picture will be erased.

As you erase, a 'squeaky clean' eraser wiping sound is played.

⌨ Hold the [X] key while clicking for quick access to a small sharp round eraser (not available when the Text or Label tools are selected, when you're in the process of rotating a stamp or shape, or when using an interactive magic tool). Release the mouse to return to your currently-selected tool.

a."Undo" and "Redo" Commands

Clicking the "Undo" button will undo (revert) the last drawing action. You can even undo more than once!

⌨ Note: You can also press [Control / ⌘] + [Z] on the keyboard to Undo.

Clicking the "Redo" button will redo the drawing action you just un-did via the "Undo" command.

As long as you don't draw again, you can redo as many times as you had undone!

⌨ Note: You can also press [Control / ⌘] + [R] on the keyboard to Redo.

b."New" Command

Clicking the 'New' button will start a new drawing. A dialog will appear where you may choose to start a new picture using a solid background color, or using a 'Starter' or 'Template' image (see below). You will first be asked whether you really want to do this.

When you use the 'Eraser' tool things you've added to your drawing will be removed, exposing the background you chose when starting a new drawing. (See Available Tools > Drawing Tools > "Eraser" Tool.)

⌨ Note: You can also press [Control / ⌘] + [N] on the keyboard to start a new drawing.

Special Solid Background Color Choices

Along with the preset solid colors, you can also choose colors using a rainbow palette or a "color mixer". These operate identically to the options found in the color palette shown below the canvas when drawing a picture. See Main Screen > Lower: Colors > Special color options for details.

'Starter' & Template Images

• 'Starters' can behave like a page from a coloring book — a black-and-white outline of a picture, which you can then color in, and the black outline remains intact — or like a 3D photograph, where you draw in between a foreground and background layer.
• 'Templates' are similar, but simply provide a background drawing to work off of. Unlike 'Starters', there is no layer that remains in the foreground of anything you draw in the picture.

When using the 'Eraser' tool or the 'Eraser' mode of the 'Fill' tool, the original image from the 'Starter' or 'Template' will reappear. (See Available Tools > Drawing Tools > "Eraser" Tool and "Fill" Tool.)

The 'Flip' and 'Mirror' Magic tools affect the orientation of the 'Starter' or 'Template', as well. (See Available Tools > "Magic" Tool (Special Effects) > Flip and Mirror.)

When you load a 'Starter' or 'Template', draw on it, and then click 'Save,' it creates a new picture file — it doesn't overwrite the original, so you can use it again later (by accessing it from the 'New' dialog).

⚙ You can create your own 'Starter' and Template images. See the Extending Tux Paint documentation's sections on 'Starters' and Templates.

💡 You can also convert your saved drawings into Templates directly within Tux Paint, from the 'Open' dialog. See "Open", below.

Erasing Exported Template Images

If you've selected a Template in your personal templates folder, and it was created from within Tux Paint (using the "Template" button in the "Open" dialog), you may remove it from within Tux Paint, too. An 'Erase' (trash can) button will appear at the lower right of the list. Click it to erase the selected template. (You will be asked to confirm.)

💡 Note: On Linux, Windows, and macOS, the picture will be placed in your desktop's trash can / recycle bin (where you may recover and restore it, if you change your mind).

⚙ Note: The 'Erase' button may be disabled, via the "noerase" option.

⚙ Note: The solid colors can be placed at the end of the 'New' dialog (below the Starters and Templates), via the "newcolorslast" option.

c."Open" Command

This shows you a list of all of the pictures you've saved. If there are more than can fit on the screen, use the up and down arrows at the top and bottom of the list to scroll through the list of pictures.

Click a picture to select it, and then...

• 

  Click the green 'Open' button at the lower left of the list to load the selected picture. You will then be able to edit it.

  (Alternatively, you can double-click a picture's icon to load it.)

  💡 If choose to open a picture, and your current drawing hasn't been saved, you will be prompted as to whether you want to save it or not. (See "Save," below.)
• 

  Click the brown 'Erase' (trash can) button at the lower right of the list to erase the selected picture. (You will be asked to confirm.)

  📜 Note: On Linux (as of version 0.9.22), Windows (as of version 0.9.27), and macOS (as of version 0.9.29), the picture will be placed in your desktop's trash can / recycle bin (where you may recover and restore it, if you change your mind).

  ⚙ Note: The 'Erase' button may be disabled, via the "noerase" option.
• 

  Click the 'Export' button near the lower right to export the selected picture to your export folder. (e.g., "~/Pictures/TuxPaint/")

From the "Open" screen you can also:

• 

  Click the blue 'Slides' (slide projector) button at the lower left to go to slideshow mode. See "Slides", below, for details.
• 

  Click the blue 'Template' button at the lower left to go to convert the selected picture into a new template, which can be used as the basis for new drawings.

  📜 Note: The Template creation feature was added to Tux Paint in version 0.9.31. To learn how to create Templates outside of Tux Paint, see Extending Tux Paint

  ⚙ The Template creation feature can be disabled (e.g., by selecting "Disable 'Make Template'" in Tux Paint Config. or running Tux Paint with the "notemplateexport" option).

• 

  Click the red 'Back' arrow button at the lower right of the list to cancel and return to the picture you were drawing.

⌨ Note: You can also press [Control / ⌘] + [O] on the keyboard to bring up the 'Open' dialog.

d."Save" Command

This saves your current picture.

If you haven't saved it before, it will create a new entry in the list of saved images. (i.e., it will create a new file)

💡 Note: It won't ask you anything (e.g., for a filename). It will simply save the picture, and play a "camera shutter" sound effect.

If you have saved the picture before, or this is a picture you just loaded using the "Open" command, you will first be asked whether you want to save over the old version, or create a new entry (a new file).

⚙ Note: If either the "saveover" or "saveovernew" options are set, it won't ask before saving over. See the "Options" documentation.

⌨ Note: You can also press [Control / ⌘] + [S] on the keyboard to save.

e."Print" Command

Click this button and your picture will be printed!

On most platforms, you can also hold the [Alt] key (called [Option] on Macs) while clicking the 'Print' button to get a printer dialog. Note that this may not work if you're running Tux Paint in fullscreen mode. See below.

Disabling Printing

The "noprint" option can be set, which will disable Tux Paint's 'Print' button.

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

Restricting Printing

The "printdelay" option can be set, which will only allow occasional printing — once every so many seconds, as configured by you.

For example, with "printdelay=60" in Tux Paint's configuration file, printing can only occur once per minute (60 seconds).

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

Printing Commands

(Linux and Unix only)

Tux Paint prints by generating a PostScript representation of the drawing and sending it to an external program. By default, the program is:

lpr

This command can be changed by setting a "printcommand" option in Tux Paint's configuration file.

An alternative print command can be invoked by holding the "[Alt]" key on the keyboard while clicking clicking the 'Print' button, as long as you're not in fullscreen mode, an alternative program is run. By default, the program is KDE's graphical print dialog:

kprinter

This command can be changed by setting a "altprintcommand" option in Tux Paint's configuration file.

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

Printer Settings

(Windows and macOS)

By default, Tux Paint simply prints to the default printer with default settings when the 'Print' button is pushed.

However, if you hold the [Alt] (or [Option]) key on the keyboard while clicking the 'Print' button, as long as you're not in fullscreen mode, your operating system's printer dialog will appear, where you can change the settings.

You can have the printer configuration changes stored between Tux Paint sessions by setting the "printcfg" option.

If the "printcfg" option is used, printer settings will be loaded from the file "printcfg.cfg" in your personal folder (see below). Any changes will be saved there as well.

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

Printer Dialog Options

By default, Tux Paint only shows the printer dialog (or, on Linux/Unix, runs the "altprintcommand"; e.g., "kprinter" instead of "lpr") if the [Alt] (or [Option]) key is held while clicking the 'Print' button.

However, this behavior can be changed. You can have the printer dialog always appear by using "--altprintalways" on the command-line, or "altprint=always" in Tux Paint's configuration file. Conversely, you can prevent the [Alt]/[Option] key from having any effect by using "--altprintnever", or "altprint=never".

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

f."Slides" Command (under "Open")

The 'Slides' button is available in the 'Open' dialog. It can be used to play a simple animation within Tux Paint, or a slideshow of pictures. It can also export an animated GIF based on the chosen images.

Chosing pictures

When you enter the 'Slides' section of Tux Paint, it displays a list of your saved files, just like the 'Open' dialog.

Click each of the images you wish to display in a slideshow-style presentation, one by one. A digit will appear over each image, letting you know in which order they will be displayed.

You can click a selected image to unselect it (take it out of your slideshow). Click it again if you wish to add it to the end of the list.

Set playback speed

A sliding scale at the lower left of the screen (next to the 'Play' button) can be used to adjust the speed of the slideshow or animated GIF, from slowest to fastest. Choose the leftmost setting to disable automatic advancement during playback within Tux Paint — you will need to press a key or click to go to the next slide (see below).

💡 Note: The slowest setting does not automatically advance through the slides. Use it for when you want to step through them manually. (This does not apply to an exported animated GIF.)

Playback in Tux Paint

To play a slideshow within Tux Paint, click the 'Play' button.

💡 Note: If you hadn't selected any images, then all of your saved images will be played in the slideshow!

During the slideshow, press [Space], [Enter] or [Return], or the [Right arrow] — or click the 'Next' button at the lower left — to manually advance to the next slide. Press [Left arrow] to go back to the previous slide.

Press [Escape], or click the 'Back' button at the lower right, to exit the slideshow and return to the slideshow image selection screen.

Exporting an animated GIF

Click the 'GIF Export' button near the lower right to have Tux Paint generate an animated GIF file based on the selected images.

💡 Note: At least two images must be selected. (To export a single image, use the 'Export' option from the main 'Open' dialog.) If no images are selected, Tux Paint will not attempt to generate a GIF based on all saved images.

Pressing [Escape] during the export process will abort the process, and return you to the 'Slideshow' dialog.

Click 'Back' in the slideshow image selection screen to return to the 'Open' dialog.

g."Quit" Command

Clicking the 'Quit' button, closing the Tux Paint window, or pushing the [Escape] key will quit Tux Paint.

You will first be prompted as to whether you really want to quit.

If you choose to quit, and you haven't saved the current picture, you will first be asked if wish to save it. If it's not a new image, you will then be asked if you want to save over the old version, or create a new entry. (See "Save" above.)

⚙ Note: If the image is saved, it will be reloaded automatically the next time you run Tux Paint -- unless the "startblank" option is set.

⚙ Note: The 'Quit' button within Tux Paint, and quitting via the [Escape] key, may be disabled, via the "noquit" option.

In that case, the "window close" button on Tux Paint's title bar (if not in fullscreen mode) or the [Alt] + [F4] key sequence may be used to quit.

If neither of those are possible, the key sequence of [Shift] + [Control / ⌘] + [Escape] may be used to quit.

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

h.Sound Muting

There is no on-screen control button at this time, but by using the [Alt] + [S] keyboard sequence, sound effects can be disabled and re-enabled (muted and unmuted) while the program is running.

Note that if sounds are completely disabled via the "nosound" option, the [Alt] + [S] key combination has no effect. (i.e., it cannot be used to turn on sounds when the parent/teacher wants them disabled.)

⚙ See the "Options" documentation.

Tux Paint's main mode of operation is via any device that appears to your operating system as a mouse, including standard mice, trackballs, and trackpads, as well as drawing tablets (usually operated with a stylus) and touch screens (operated with a finger and/or a stylus) (see "Using a Tablet or Touchscreen" below for more information).

For drawing and controlling Tux Paint, only a single mouse button is used — typically, on multi-button mice, this will the left mouse button, but this can usually be configured at the operating system level. By default, Tux Paint will ignore input from the other button(s). If a user attempts to use the other button(s), a pop-up dialog will eventually appear reminding them that only one button is recognized Tux Paint. However, you may configure Tux Paint to accept any button as input (see the Options documentation).

As noted above, Tux Paint recognizes any device that appears as a mouse. This means drawing tablets and touchscreens may be used. However, these devices often support other features beyond X/Y motion, button clicks, and scroll-wheel motion. Currently, those additional features are not supported by Tux Paint. Some examples:

• Pressure and angle
• Eraser tip
• Multi-touch gestures

Tux Paint may be configured to recognize input from any game controller that appears to your operating system as a joystick. That even includes modern game console controllers connected via USB or Bluetooth (e.g., Nintendo Switch or Microsoft Xbox game pads)!

Numerous configuration options are available to best suit the device being used, and the user's needs. Analog input will be used for coarse movement, and digital "hat" input for fine movement. Buttons on the controller can be mapped to different Tux Paint controls (e.g., acting as the [Escape] key, switching to the Paint tool, invoking Undo and Redo operations, etc.). See the Options documentation for more details.

Tux Paint offers an option to allow the keyboard to be used to control the mouse pointer. This includes motion and clicking, as well as shortcuts to navigate between and within certain parts of the interface. See the Options documentation for more details.