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Who needs Surface? Multi-touch comes to Linux
by Brad Linder Jul 13th 2007 at 6:00PM
Want a multi-touch computing platform but don't have $10,000 lying around? No problem. The Multi-Pointer X Server has just added multi-touch support to the X server windowing system used in Linux.
MPX also supports multiple input devices. So you can use a mouse and a touchscreen simultaneously. Or 8 mice and a touchscreen. It's up to you.
Unlike Microsoft's Surface platform, MPX does not include gestures. It simply allows you to use multiple inputs. In other words, you don't have universal commands like pinching your fingers together to make items larger or smaller as you can with the iPhone. But you can grab both ends of an object to change its size. Or you can draw pictures or peck at an on-screen keyboard with two hands.
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MPX also supports multiple input devices. So you can use a mouse and a touchscreen simultaneously. Or 8 mice and a touchscreen. It's up to you.
Unlike Microsoft's Surface platform, MPX does not include gestures. It simply allows you to use multiple inputs. In other words, you don't have universal commands like pinching your fingers together to make items larger or smaller as you can with the iPhone. But you can grab both ends of an object to change its size. Or you can draw pictures or peck at an on-screen keyboard with two hands.
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niclet said 7:56AM on 7-14-2007
I rather prefer an under screen projection.
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p-diddy said 7:56AM on 7-14-2007
So does multi-touch in this sense mean you have to touch it multiple times to get it to do what you want?
ZING!
Seriously, nice idea, but it was jerky and inaccurate. I'll stick with the mouse.
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Mark said 10:02AM on 7-14-2007
Surface is so much better though!
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kerunt said 9:50PM on 7-14-2007
Image seems to be projected? Where's the fun in that?
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Eric said 9:20AM on 7-16-2007
Jerky and Linux, damn it sux.
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