Wayland multi-touch gets touchpad support | Linux Today

Wayland multi-touch gets touchpad support

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 19, 2014

Wayland is still very much under heavy development; while it may not be replacing X.org any time soon as the primary display server of Linux distros, it won’t be too long before the first wave of distros come with it as a primary display server.

One of the features being worked on for Wayland is multi-touch, and new implementations have just been added to support proper multi-touch gestures. Specific mousing gestures it now supports include: two and three finger tapping, two-finger scrolling, and drag-n-drop on clickpads. Clickpads are still being worked on, with plans to include other, obscure input methods via libinput.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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