Xorg and multitouch

Jarod Wilson jarod at redhat.com
Wed Nov 18 17:09:48 UTC 2009


On 11/17/09 9:14 PM, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     >  Multitouch means, several mousepointers and you can move them all
>     >  seperately.
>
> No, that's what multi-pointer means.  Multi-Pointer X is already in
> F12.
...
> Multitouch refers to technologies that involve extrapolating from
> motion of finger-shaped blobs on your input device to the idea that
> a user has performed some continuous motion with said finger(s), and
> reacting appropriately.  It's not the same as multi-pointer X, but it
> does use the same core technology.

Isn't two-finger-drag for scrolling and two-finger-taps for right-click 
a form of multitouch? Or are we talking about extending that to pinch, 
rotate, etc?

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Jarod Wilson
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