Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook Pro
The “Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook Pro” (LTLMBP) project has been an exciting development over the past few years. In 2018 Bill Harding started a public quest to make the Linux touchpad as good as the MacBook Pro.
Through his effort and those of many others who’ve donated each month, steady progress has been made by engineer Povilas Kanapickas (among others) in integrating multitouch events into the venerable Xorg code base. Prior to this effort, many thought it unlikely that multitouch apps would ever be possible until everyone had switched from Xorg to Wayland.
Bill has been making regular updates on the progress of this project at his blog, bill.harding.blog:
Pre-kickoff
LTLMBP Kickoff
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2018-04-12: A goal worth pursuing? (reddit - 295 upvotes / 108 comments, ycombinator - 433 upvotes)
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2019-03-25: A call for help (reddit - 710 upvotes / 108 comments, ycombinator - 454 upvotes)
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2019-05-05: Mini update
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2020-04-26: May 2020 Update (ycombinator - 147 upvotes, and again - 314 upvotes)
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2020-05-17: Preliminary project funding survey results (reddit - 51 upvotes / 5 comments)
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2020-06-22: Project update - progress on multitouch (reddit - 266 upvotes / 71 comments, ycombinator - 270 upvotes)
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2021-02-11: Firefox gesture support goes live (ycombinator - 65 upvotes)
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2021-06-06: Gestures land to QT, Gimp and Xserver
Please Donate
If you can add something to the LTLMBP fund each month, Bill will be able to hire more engineers to work on the touchpad quirks and frustrations that affect us all.