X.Org 6.8.2 is Out

ertz writes "The X.Org Foundation today announced the fourth release of the X Window System since the formation of the Foundation in January of 2004. The new X.Org release, called X Window System Version 11, Release 6.8.2 (X11R6.8.2) builds on the work of X.org X11R6.8.0 and X11R6.8.1 released in 2004. X11R6.8.2 combines the latest developments from many people and companies working with the X Window System and an open X.Org Foundation Release Team. All Official X.Org Releases are available for download from the ftp site and at mirror-sites world-wide."

Comments

So is Xfree86 dead?

[glrotate]

Is it being actively maintained or developed?

Re:So is Xfree86 dead?

[eatjello]

not dead, just forked. xfree86 is still in active development, but is currently under a feature freeze so they can concentrate on cleaning up the code (something xfree very much needs).

Debian?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone in the know know why Debian is sticking to a fork of the old XFree code, and not moving to x.org like other distros?

NetBSD

[Coneasfast]

when will netbsd switch to xorg for its official X.

i know they have no problem with the new XFree86 license, but there are other reasons. Xorg is the new de facto standard. it has more features, cleaner code, and the best xfree86 developers have moved to xorg. xfree86 will soon be obsolete, it's time they switch.

what's holding them back? they can still keep xfree86 on as an alternative too.

Xgl

[Doc Ruby]

How about Xgl, the port of X to OpenGL HW/SW?

I'd like to see two pointers, two focuses

[DunbarTheInept]

What with USB working the way it does, where you can chain off as many devices as you feel like, and computers being fast enough to handle all of them at once, it seems to be like it should be possible to do the following:

Three Users, user zero, one, and two, are sitting in a conference room using a giant screen projector as the monitor, attached to a laptop someone brought. There are three different keyboards and three different mice attached to the laptop as USB devices. Some might even be IR so they are being used from across the room.

User zero picks up keyboard 0 and mouse 0, uses mouse zero to click on a terminal window and focus it, then uses keyboard 0 to type into it.

Meanwhile User one sits at keyboard 1 and mouse 1 to demonstrate something on the web using a browser window.

Meanwhile User two, using keyboard 2 and mouse 2, is making a diagram in openoffice.

Essentailly, there are three different "input contexts" each one consisting of one mouse and one keyboard, and each has its own mouse pointer, and it's own keyboard focus, and the X server is interleaving thier input events together and dispatching them to the appropriate applications.

The place where I would have found such a thing useful was a roleplaying game where I had a lot of visual aids on computer, one of which was a map with little tokens players could move to represent themselves on the map (each token was a layer in Gimp) It would have been handy to have public mice for them and my private mouse for me to use on the private GM screen (the laptop's own screen).

But, it doesn't seem to be possible without writing it myself.... ....hmmm..... I wonder how one goes about learning the X input system....