Native Multi-Touch Support On Linux

[acreda]

This is a great thing but also a shame that this is a demo rather than an actual X.org implementation so I imagine this will be next year.

I hope the android developers are taking note, too late for 2.0 but would be a great update and people will really want this

I am one of the few who feel that Android needs to stay with phones rather than netbooks

[bugmenot]

For people who think that videos should not require flash:

http://tinyvid.tv/show/2ld3zjvlmw41t

[AliBaba]

Great! One step closer to Linux replacing Vista.

So now I only need a decent handwriting recognition software. Any hints?

[Zhick]

Sweet!

and then sending D-Bus messages over to Compiz to produce multi-touch effects.

Actually that's a kde/kwin desktop in the video. :P

Anyway, is there any chance this will also work on those multitouch-touchpads popular in netbooks nowadays?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Native Multi-Touch Support On Linux

Mohamed-Ikbel Boulabiar has written in to report that he and his team at the Interactive Computing Lab in ENAC, Toulouse have been successful in bringing native multi-touch support to Linux. While there is Multi-Pointer X in the mainlinue X.Org server (to be released with X.Org 7.5 / X Server 1.7), there is now multi-touch support to be able to handle gestures and other actions.This multi-touch support requires the Linux 2.6.30 kernel...

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