Smoke testing of Precise X server bits

[Clint Byrum]

Excerpts from Tim Gardner's message of Fri Jan 20 05:52:11 -0800 2012:
> 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.

> 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.

I just copied/pasted that in precise (up to date within the last 3 days) using
my MacBookAir 4,1's touchpad. It even pasted with 3 finger tap.