Compiz Support For Multi-Pointer X

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Compiz Support For Multi-Pointer X

In May we shared that Multi-Pointer X (or MPX for short) was entering the mainline X server. While it was merged to master that month, X Server 1.5 was already branched out and therefore it won't appear in X.Org 7.4, but it will appear in X Server 1.6 (X.Org 7.5) until next year. While it's now in the mainline branch, Peter Hutterer, the chief developer of MPX, hasn't stopped there...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NjU4MA

[M1AU]

I'm very interested in this whole Mulit-Pointer X stuff and hopefully I can enjoy it in a few month/years without much manual configuration work :)

[Vadi]

Whee :)

Hopefully this gets into ubuntu 9.04 or something.

[psyopper]

I just posted this over at forum.compiz-fusion.org in the Core Dvelopment forum. Hopefully someone cares enough to do something with it!

Like I said over there, with the Nvidia system-on-a-chip coming that has been proven to play Quake III and small enough for handheld devices, I see this announcement as a huge boon to Compiz if they (the Core dev's) decide to use it.

[Vadi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8bXfJhmOVg

[ioannis]

Is IR part of the same work ?

[Vadi]

I doubt it - ir was available already. There's a bunch of videos of wii remote + compiz.

[some-guy]

I doubt it - ir was available already. There's a bunch of videos of wii remote + compiz.
as patches ;)

[ioannis]

man, I hate acronyms!

Does IR mean Infra-Red in this context or Input Redirection? I thought the latter.