LCA: Bringing X into a two-handed world
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| Luckily for us, says Peter, multi-pointer X is on the horizon. MPX extends X
| through the creation of the concept of "master" and "slave" devices. Master
| devices are those which generate events seen by MPX-aware clients; they are
| virtual devices which can be created and destroyed by the user at will. Slave
| devices, instead, correspond to the physical devices attached to the system.
| Through the use of a modified xinput command, users can create masters and
| attach specific slaves to them.
|
| [...]
|
| Some interesting problems remain, though. How, for example, should a window
| manager place new windows in a multi-user, multi-device situation? Users will
| want their windows in their part of the display space, but the window manager
| has no real way of knowing where that is - or even which user the
| window "belongs" to. In general, the whole paradigm under which desktop
| applications have been developed is unprepared to deal with a multi-device
| world.
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http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/267672/09f9237296a3b81c/
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X.org releases version 7.3, gets hotplugging support
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| While support for hotplugging has been a long time coming in X, it may be a
| few months before any of the Unix desktops have updated their code to take
| advantage of the new features in the underlying system.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/05/xorg-releases-version-7-3-gets-hotplugging-support
X.Org 7.4 To Get Multi-Pointer X Support
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| X.Org 7.3 will be released later this month, and now Daniel Stone has updated
| the X.Org Wiki with a page for the X.Org 7.4 release. With the six month
| release cycle, X.Org 7.4 is planned for release in February of 2008. Some of
| the features so far on their planning page includes Multi-Pointer X which
| provides multiple cursor support...
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NTk4OA
Linux MPX Multi-touch Table May Become Alternative Microsoft Surface
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| It may not be as fancy-schmancy as Microsoft Surface or Jeff Han's demos but
| this video of a Linux-based MPX multi-touch table shows that things are
| moving full speed ahead in the land of the free penguins.
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http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/touch-me/linux-mpx-multi+touch-table-may-become-free-diy-microsoft-surface-one-day-278613.php
Multi-touch support for MPX [in Linux]
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| MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all
| assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. Now I've gone one
| step further and added support for multi-touch displays. Have a look at this
| video...
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http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/?q=node/86
Getting Started With Compiz Fusion
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| Some people who are new to Compiz Fusion might like to watch this video to
| get to know the basic commands and to have a better Compiz Fusion experience.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNQcD82mhk
Microsoft Rips off Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona
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| Recently while on vacation I was flipping channels and came across a
| channel called “current TV”, what caught my eye was a computer booting
| to Kubuntu. This computer looked remarkably like Microsoft’s new
| Surface touch table. Funny thing is the reactable has been around
| over three years and research has been going on much longer than that.
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http://dthomasdigital.wordpress.com/2007/06/22/microsoft-rips-off-researchers-at-pompeu-fabra-university-of-barcelona/
Microsoft Surface idea not that new?
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| An attached PC, running Linux and Reactrix software, calculates the
| location and movement of an object interrupting the beam and enables
| the system to allow a basic interaction with projected content.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/32389/118/
Jeff Han's Research Ripped by Microsoft Surface?
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| Jeff Han, consulting research scientist for NYU's Department of
| Computer Science, developed a multi-touch interactive graphical
| interface, which he presented at the TED conference over a year
| ago. His research turned into its own company, Perceptive Pixel.
|
| Now it seems Microsoft completely ripped the idea and created
| Microsoft Surface.
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http://www.jorispoort.com/2007/05/jeff-hans-research-ripped-by-microsoft.html
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