When using any application that accepts pen input via a bamboo ink stylus if the cursor is on one side of the screen and I bring the pen down to touch the screen, the cursor will behave as though I dragged a mouse from where the pointer was to where I placed the stylus down. As shown in this picture: screenshot

I have tested this behavior and it happens in all of the following applications I have tested:

GIMP

Krita

Xournal

It also exhibits behavior similar to the above (dragging mouse across the screen) in the following applications not intended for pen use:

Unity Desktop

Google Chrome

Entire LibreOffice Suite

I have not found or installed Linux drivers for the bamboo ink stylus. It is connected via bluetooth and on the bluetooth menu it is listed as a generic input device. My Xorg configurations are the default for Ubuntu 17.04. Here are my system specifications:

Laptop Model: Dell Inspiron 13-7378

OS Version: Ubuntu 17.04

CPU Model: Intel Core i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz x 4

GPU Model: Intel HD Graphics 620 (Kabylake G2)

Memory: 7.7 GB

OS Type: 64-bit

Disk Size: 251.0 GB

Settings Changed from Default: Display scale set to 1.25

Non-default application installs:

Krita

Gimp

Pitivi

Google Chrome

Oracle JVM 8

GCC and Binutils

All requirements for the above

Default Applications Removed:

Firefox

Additional Drivers Enabled: