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Expand Up @@ -122,6 +122,27 @@ This is a bug that is planned to be fixed.
You can see the progress on GitHub here:
[OpenTabletDriver#1143](https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver/issues/1143)

## My tablet stop responding when I close the OpenTabletDriver user interface {#gui-is-almost-always-the-driver}

Compared to most other device drivers, OpenTabletDriver is a user-mode driver,
which means it needs to run an active application to be able to process data
from your tablet.

OpenTabletDriver is split into 2 parts: the daemon and the GUI. If you launch
the GUI without the daemon running, the GUI starts an internal daemon process
and manages the daemon for you.

That means if you start the daemon before starting the GUI, then the GUI no
longer manages the daemon process, and you can open and close the GUI
separately as needed.

> **Note:** The Linux version of the OpenTabletDriver GUI does *not* manage the
daemon for you, yet.
>
> For more details, see OpenTabletDriver issue
[#4529](https://github.com/OpenTabletDriver/OpenTabletDriver/issues/4529).
{:.alert-primary}

## How to convert areas to and from OpenTabletDriver? {#area-conversion}

### Conversion through the OpenTabletDriver UI
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