Smoke testing of Precise X server bits

[Tim Gardner]

On 01/19/2012 11:43 PM, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On 01/20/2012 03:01 AM, Chase Douglas wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have everything ready (almost) for the upload of the X server into
>> Precise. It includes X server 1.11 plus the input stack from 1.12. It
>> also includes a bunch of interdependent packages that would break if you
>> were only to update your X server. Here's the known issues with the PPA:
>>
>> * No utouch-geis support, which means most of your gestures won't work
>>    - Will be fixed by feature freeze
>> * Multitouch in Qt from indirect devices (e.g. trackpads) is broken
>>    - Will be fixed in next Qt upload *after* we push these packages
>> * Qt is still building for armel, so don't test this on armel yet
>> * A security hole will kill your screen saver if you type
>>    Ctrl+Alt+KP_Multiply
>>    - Will be fixed in xkeyboard-config upload in the next couple hours
>>
>> Notably, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics has a large patch added in today
>> for multitouch support. The X synaptics module is used for all
>> trackpads. Please test that your trackpad is behaving sanely.
>>
>> We are mostly looking for blocker bugs right now (random X server
>> crashes, really obnoxious behavior, etc.). Please reply with any such
>> bugs you find.
>
> Oops, I forgot to mention the packages are in ppa:canonical-x/x-staging.
> The following should get you set up for testing:
>
> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-x/x-staging
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> I don't think you need to dist-upgrade for this as there shouldn't be
> any new packages or packages needing to be removed, but I'm not entirely
> certain.
>
> -- Chase
>

Will any of these updates address cut and paste on a Mac touchpad ? It 
appears to be impossible to select text without using an external mouse.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com