Current status of XI2 mouse stuff now that Lucid Lynx includes XI2?

Ben Klein shacklein at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 18:46:46 CST 2010


On 15 February 2010 11:13, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>
> I recall that Paul Hampson did a first cut at using XI2,
> linked to from the bottom of http://wiki.winehq.org/DInput,
> and http://wiki.winehq.org/Bug6971 says "the new XInput2 X11 extension
> (which is part of XOrg 7.5) provides relative mouse motion events.
> Once this extension is more common, we will be able to fix Wine properly."
> Well, here it is, and XI2 is said to be included in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Alpha 2;
> so it's about to get a lot more common.

For us non-Ubuntu users, what xorg stable version has XI2?

> Has anybody tried it out lately?  What's Paul's status?
>
> Incidentally, I just noticed a page about how somebody
> made the transition to XI2 on another project, see
> http://www.clearchain.com/blog/posts/xinput-1-xinput-2-conversion-guide
> - Dan



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