Tuesday, January 17, 2023

libinput and the custom pointer acceleration function

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After 8 months of work by Yinon Burgansky, libinput now has a new pointer acceleration profile: the "custom" profile. This prof...
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Friday, January 6, 2023

X servers no longer allow byte-swapped clients (by default)

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In the beginning, there was the egg. Then fictional people started eating that from different ends, and the terms of "little endian...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

libei - opening the portal doors

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Time for another status update on libei , the transport layer for bouncing emulated input events between applications and Wayland compositor...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

The new XWAYLAND extension is available

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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...
Friday, March 4, 2022

libei - adding support for passive contexts

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A quick reminder: libei is the lib rary for e mulated i nput. It comes as a pair of C libraries, libei for the client side and libeis for...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The xf86-input-wacom driver hits 1.0

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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...
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Thursday, September 23, 2021

What's new in XI 2.4 - touchpad gestures

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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...