arstechnica.com — Today marked the mildly delayed new release of X.org version 7.3, which corresponds to server version 1.4. The so-called killer feature of this version of X is the new support for hotplugging of input devices (such as keyboard, mice, touchscreens) as well as output devices (monitors, projectors, and so forth).
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ratph1nkSep 6, 2007
I agree, this is a step in the right direction, but it is really years late. This is another step in the direction of Linux as a viable consumer OS. Closer and closer everyday, but it is things like this, just arriving in X Windows, that I think about when people start saying Linux is primetime, granny OS.It isn't, but it is closer then it has ever been.
init100Sep 6, 2007
"Not only do comments you just submit display "double-spaced""The workaround is to edit the post and resubmit. But even if you don't the double-spacing is only visible to you. I'm happy that multiple paragraphs are now possible, unlike before, when multiple paragraphs were aggregated into one fat blob.
hugotheschmugoSep 6, 2007
*Parts* of it will be included (this is possible because the x-stuff has a very modular architecture), but *not* including input hot-plugging. See this forum post by Bryce Harrington, (I think he is the the Ubuntu x-org maintainer)<a class="user" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3223971&postcount=52">http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3223971&postcount=52</a>
gavagai80Sep 6, 2007
Well considering I've never had to reboot when switching mice, keyboards, USB devices and so on, and have never had occasion to switch monitors with the computer on, I'm not sure this "years late" feature is useful to more than a tiny fraction of people.Having to reboot for Windows updates is obviously considerably more of a disability to a computer.
tenoqSep 7, 2007
Yep, still doesn't work in 2007 on an XP box. Where were you going with this?
ksileboSep 7, 2007
I haven't used PS/2 keyboards/mice for something like 6 years.