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You may have seen the news that Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 plans to remove Xorg . But Xwayland will stay around, and given the name over...

In the beginning, there was the egg. Then fictional people started eating that from different ends, and the terms of "little endian...

As of xorgproto 2022.2, we have a new X11 protocol extension. First, you may rightly say "whaaaat? why add new extensions to the X prot...

After roughly 20 years and counting up to 0.40 in release numbers, I've decided to call the next version of the xf86-input-wacom driv...

After a nine year hiatus, a new version of the X Input Protocol is out. Credit for the work goes to Povilas Kanapickas, who also implemented...

Xorg is about to released . And it's a release without Xwayland. And... wait, what? Let's unwind this a bit, and ideally you s...

Last year I wrote about how to create a user-specific XKB layout , followed by a post explaining that this won't work in X . But there...

This post is part of a series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 . In this post I'll describe the X server pointer accelera...

This post is part of a four part series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 . In the first three parts, I covered the X server and synap...

This post is part of a four part series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 . In Part 1 and Part 2 I showed the X server acceleration ...

This post is part of a four part series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 . In Part 1 I showed the X server acceleration code as used ...

This post is part of a four part series: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 . Over the last few days, I once again tried to tackle pointer...

This post describes the synclient tool, part of the xf86-input-synaptics package. It does not describe the various options, that's what...

xinput is a tool to query and modify X input device properties (amongst other things). Every so-often someone-complains about it's non-i...

This post applies to most tools that interface with the X server and change settings in the server, including xinput, xmodmap, setxkbmap, x...

A great new feature has been merged during this 1.19 X server development cycle: we're now using threads for input [1]. Previously, ther...