Multi-Pointer X

<h2 id="window-manager">Window manager</h2>
<p>Combined with the proof of concept window manager MPWM, MPX provides extended features such as simultaneous movement or resizing of application windows, per pointer annotation over top of an application and restricted input support (<a href="/facts/Floor_control/aQ0KDdRu">floor control</a>). Applications that are aware of the extra pointers are also able to make use of them, such as two handed drawing.
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<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>MPX was created by Peter Hutterer in 2005–2008, as part of his PhD in the Wearable Computer Lab under the supervision of Prof. Bruce H. Thomas at the <a href="/facts/University_of_South_Australia/sTsjwxcP">University of South Australia</a>.
</p><p>MPX was merged into the current development version of <a href="/facts/X.Org_Server/7AaPmYtV">X.Org</a> on 26 May 2008.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
</p><p>Xinput2 (XI2), which is the second official stable API release of the X input extension, contains MPX and was merged into the current development version of <a href="/facts/X.Org_Server/7AaPmYtV">X.Org</a> on 3 June 2009,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> and released as part of the <a href="/facts/X.Org_Server/7AaPmYtV">XServer 1.7</a> on 2 October 2009.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/DiamondTouch/tUpsX07k">DiamondTouch</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Multi-touch/DP71Xsqj">Multi-touch</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Multiseat_configuration/tBW9b2w1">Multiseat</a></li></ul>

<ul><li>Hutterer P. and Thomas B. H., "Groupware Support in the Windowing System" In <i>8th Australasian User Interface Conference (AUIC2007)</i>, Ballarat, Vic, Australia, 30 Jan – 2 Feb 2007. W. Piekarski and B. Plimmer, Eds.</li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/inputproto/XI2proto.txt">X Input Extension version 2.0</a></li>
<li><a href="http://who-t.blogspot.com/">MPX Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100223234730/http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/mpx/">MPX Old Blog</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130629062321/http://wearables.unisa.edu.au/">Wearable Computer Lab Home Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110811074901/http://alec.mooo.com/mpx.html">MPX Tutorial</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUOn_nJmRA">MPX on YouTube</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olWjnfBoY8E">MPX multi-touch support</a> (YouTube)</li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130419224043/http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2008/programme/thursday.html">"Redefining input in X", an LCA2008 talk on MPX</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~whot/mpwm/">Source of the proof-of-concept Multi-Pointer Window Manager</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Max-E/xinput-ui">Xinput-UI</a>, GUI tool written in Python</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Hutterer, Peter (26 May 2008). "MPX has been merged". xorg (Mailing list). Retrieved 14 July 2008. <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-May/035384.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-May/035384.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Hutterer, Peter. "XI2 has been merged" (Mailing list). Retrieved 11 June 2009. <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-June/001028.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-devel/2009-June/001028.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Hutterer, Peter. "[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.7.0" (Mailing list). Retrieved 21 April 2010. <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-October/001087.html" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2009-October/001087.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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