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

[Vitaliy Margolen]

On 02/15/2010 02:51 AM, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.5
> 
> Somewhere within the past 3 months I had a discussion with Paul and
> some others on #winehackers about the xinput2 work. Paul said his work
> was basically a proof of concept and that the real work is much more
> involved. It requires an explorer process which feeds wineserver with
> events, see http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2009-June/076692.html
> 
Indeed it's not so simple. Just plugging dinput into XI2 via x11.drv will
work. But is not the best solution - it doesn't help with RawInput. However
this might do just fine until RawInput is actually implemented.

Vitaliy.