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X11R7.7 released

X11R7.7 released

Posted Jun 10, 2012 18:30 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
Parent article: X11R7.7 released

Love the idea of 'pointer barriers' - looking forward to implementations :D


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X11R7.7 released

Posted Jun 15, 2012 3:53 UTC (Fri) by whot (subscriber, #50317) [Link]

GNOME3 already uses this to block the movement of the pointer from the Activities menu (if placed on the right monitor) to the left monitor.

I believe Unity uses it in some way too, Chris Halse-Rogers has been working on the protocol to add threshold-based pointer barriers (if you move fast enough, you can push through a barrier).

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