Compositor/Window Manager for Multitouch

Josh Leverette coder543 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 15:13:28 PDT 2011


Those are all designed for X are they not?

On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Kai Mast <kai.mast at freakybytes.org> wrote:

> On 24.06.2011 15:16, Kai Wohlfahrt wrote:
>> I have set myself a rather ambitious project to start this summer, and would like to ask some questions before I get started.
>> The aim is to write a compositor/window manager that will work well with multitouch input (a friend of mine is taking care of the hardware setup, the plan is optical recognition of touch points). I very much like the approach Wayland is taking, so I'd like your input on whether it would be possible to build this on Wayland.
> I don't really understand what you're trying to achieve...
> 
> Current distros already support multitouch through frameworks like utouch. Maybe just write a compiz-plugin that maps multitouch gestures to actions like "minimize" or "close"?
> 
> greetings,
> also Kai ;)
> 
> P.S: Is anyone else missing the Reply-To element in Mails form this list?
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