Multitouch
Contents
About
The Wiki
This resource features information about multitouch support for Ubuntu, including:
- drivers for a range of hardware
- a gesture processing system which does the heavy lifting of gesture analysis
- APIs for developers who want to build gestures into their apps
- support for gesture-based window management in Unity
uTouch
The Ubuntu uTouch gesture framework includes several different components and is associated with various tools and projects:
- kernel drivers (evdev, mtdev)
- a display server (currently only X is supported; there are future plans for Wayland)
- Grail - the gesture recognizer
- GEIS - platform/distro agnostic API for gestures
- Support in toolkits (Qt, GTK)
- Support for legacy applications (Ginn)
See the "uTouch In-Depth" section below for more information on the projects various aspects (including current work). Architectural information is available there as well.
For the full list of projects related to uTouch, be sure to see the "Projects" section on this page:
The latest supported versions of our software is always available in our PPA:
Joining the Community
You can also subscribe to the Ubuntu Multitouch dev mailing list
For information on getting started with uTouch, see the links below to the "Hardware Support" and "Testing" multitouch wiki pages.
uTouch In-Depth
The main Multitouch page was getting quite long, so we've split content out into dedicated pages for easier reading and reference.
Current Work - What's happening this cycle
History - Work done in previous versions of Ubuntu
Additional Resources - Information on research, Ubuntu brainstorming, and other related material
Additional Background
News and Social Media
Multitouch in Maverick - Original uTouch announcement on the mailing list
If you want to contribute to/find the latest bookmarked and popular Ubuntu multi-touch information, please use the following tags:
- utouch
- multi-touch
- multitouch
- ubuntu
- demo
Here are some feeds with such tags:
Definitions
Multitouch/Definitions - A glossary of terms we use when discussing uTouch technology, both at the user-experience and engineering levels
Multitouch - Wikipedia entry