Poor Man's Multi-Touch: using multiple mice with Xorg
Since Jan. 13th, 2010 Xorg version 7.5 has landed to Debian unstable; one of the most notable additions to it was the XInput2 system, which incorporates the MPX efforts. So I hooked up a second USB...
View ArticleUser-aware scheduling
Recently both OSnews and Slashdot pointed out some experiments about context-awareUIs done by Christian Giordano at Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu GNU/Linux), and the first results are somewhat...
View ArticleKinect linux kernel driver
It looks like Santa came early this year.KernelLabs sponsored me for a Kinect sensor device unit so I can experiment writing a Linux kernel driver for it.So in the next weeks I'll be working on a gspca...
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Gnome 3: go to Shell? Not just yet, thanks.
In Debian Unstable the transition to Gnome 3 is taking place; when Gnome 3.0 firstly came out some unnamed geeky users complained loudly about the design decisions of the development team to push...
View ArticleExperimenting with Gtk+ theme variants: Adwaita red
Most Gtk+ themes offer a “light” and a “dark” variant, however I found out that these names are just conventional: a Gtk+ theme can define variants with arbitrary names, so maybe this can be used for...
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