A couple of years ago there was some talk about multitouch on Linux, but more recently the topic seems to have died completely.Back in 2007, after Microsoft announced Surface, there was a lot said about Linux MPX as the open source alternative to Surface, but that seems to have gone nowhere since the developer of MPX moved on to other things.
There was also some pretty cool multitouch videos posted to Youtube.com a couple of years back, but since there's been little or nothing. What's going on with Linux and multitouch? Please provide some recent pointers if you know of any.
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Multitouch on Linux is not dead. Peter Hutterer is working on XInput2 and moving MPX to X (see http://who-t.blogspot.com/2009/03/xi2-implementation-take-1.html and http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.5)
Although it isn't dead and Peter Hutterer is doing some amazing work, it would have been nice to see others contribute and invest in the future of multi touch on linux.
We are lightyears behind Microsoft, but I'm sure XI2 + Clutter will make Linux look good.
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