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Libinput 0.9 Adds Support For Hovering Fingers On Touchpads

Written by Michael Larabel in Wayland on 30 January 2015 at 12:02 AM EST. Add A Comment

Peter Hutterer announced the release of libinput 0.9.0 a short time ago.

The libinput 0.9.0 release adds support for hovering fingers on touchpads, click methods are now configurable, and there's support for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Broadwell model with regard to the physical buttons above the touchpad area.

Those wishing to learn more about libinput 0.9.0 can find out all of the important details via the release announcement. Libinput continues to be used dominantly used by Wayland but is now gaining some interest by Canonical with Mir and under X.Org-based environments via the xf86-input-libinput driver.

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