X Input 2.0 Merged Into The X Server

[phoronix]

Phoronix: X Input 2.0 Merged Into The X Server

Just as planned, the X Input 2 protocol for X.Org has entered the master X Server code-base. X Input 2 (or Xi2 for short) is a significant update over the original X Input extension and allows for Multi-Pointer X support and other enhanced input features...

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

[bugmenot]

Great news, thanks developers!

[Pfanne]

yay! mpx!
linux is now ready for all that multitouch stuff that everybody seems to care about so much
but it would be interesting to see 2 people infront of one screen working with 2 different applications ^^

[Zhick]

I always wondered: Are all those shiny Multitouch-Touchpads notebooks and netbooks now have so often actually multipointer-devices? If so I think these + multipointer X might lead to some great things in the future. But I guess they're not real multipointer-devices but instead do their magic purely in hardware.

[Ant P.]

My eee can detect three fingers on the keypad, but I doubt it does multitouch. Besides if it did, there'd probably be something in the driver to configure it already.

[Adarion]

yay! mpx!
linux is now ready for all that multitouch stuff that everybody seems to care about so much
but it would be interesting to see 2 people infront of one screen working with 2 different applications ^^

Afair there was a video showing a first demo of MPX some time ago, showing maybe 10 people on a desk, one monitor and 10 (or 20?) mouses and same number of cursors and everyone shuffling his mouse/s around.
Though it should be not quite easy to have two applications take instructions from two users, could be a focus problem first and in case a problem with diverging instructions at the same time. Well, but maybe there are CAD programs using a mouse and some fancy cyber-whatever so you can use both hands at the same time to srew around on the screen.

[Ant P.]

Now there's an idea... accurate dual-wielding in FPS games?

Better still, Windows can't do it.

[Pfanne]

Now there's an idea... accurate dual-wielding in FPS games?

Better still, Windows can't do it.

playing railshooter with your friends on one computer

[Zhick]

Now there's an idea... accurate dual-wielding in FPS games?

Better still, Windows can't do it.

I remember playing The Settlers 2 with a friend on one pc with two mice in splitscreen... and that was like twelve years ago or something.
Ok, that's not a FPS, and I'm not even sure if it was Windows or Dos, but still: At least at some point in time on some sort of M$ OS in at least one game multipointer worked.

[Suzuran]

How about controlling a multiplayer game with Wiimotes?