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X11 7.7 Released, Brings Multi-Touch Input

Posted by timothy on from the nostalgia-for-moderns dept.

First time accepted submitter Jizzbug writes "The X Window System made release X11 7.7 last night (June 9th): 'This release incorporates both new features and stability and correctness fixes, including support for reporting multi-touch events from touchpads and touchscreens which can report input from more than one finger at a time, smoother scrolling from scroll wheels, better cross referencing and formatting of the documentation, pointer barriers to control cursor movement, and synchronization fences to coordinate between X and other rendering engines such as OpenGL.'"

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  1. Re:Wht not sound? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    So the same guy that made system boot configuration and init scripts a huge pain in the ass with systemd is also responsible for screwing up our sound support? Somehow I am not surprised by this....

  2. Re:Wht not sound? by Tore+S+B · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because the distros put it in way the hell to early, a point at which there were plenty of kinks, and the benefits had not been made visible in a meaningful way in any UI I noticed.

    There's only so many times you could end up with random sound problems which were solved - with no loss of functionality - by killall pulseaudio - or more permanently...

    rm /usr/bin/pulseaudio
    ln -s /bin/cat /usr/bin/pulseaudio

     ...without developing a certain animosity towards that binary.

    --
    toresbe
  3. Re:Wayland by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wayland's current status: it continues to be the vaporware windowing system that is the darling of people who have no idea about what X really does or what its problems might be.