Talks and Papers about X
This page provides a comprehensive list of papers, talks or other forms of technical and educational material about the X window system, provided by X.Org members and grouped by year of publication.
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2012
Touch and Go: Leading Touch UI with Open Source, Chase Douglas. Presented at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and the Boulder Linux Users Group, Boulder, CO, US, January 2012.
2011
Linux input from bottom to top, Daniel Stone. Presented at Linux Conf Australia 2011
2010
The multi-user desktop evolution : Increasing input bandwidth from one to many, Peter Hutterer, Toutlibre seminar, Toulouse France, September 2010.
Towards perfect frames, Daniel Stone. Presented at Fosdem 2010, Brussels, Begium.
Managing open source contributions for software project sustainability, Bhuricha Deen Sethanandha, Bart Massey, and William Jones. In Proceedings of the 2010 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering & Technology (PICMET 2010), Bangkok, Thailand, July 2010.
2009
Porting a Window Manager from Xlib to XCB, Arnaud Fontaine December 2009. BSc Thesis.
Writing an X compositing manager, Arnaud Fontaine December 2009. MSc Thesis.
Wrong Turn at Palo Alto: Why the Desktop is in Peril and How to Save It, Bart Massey, presentation for LinuxCon 2009, Portland OR, September 2009.
Comparison of Graphics Processors and General Purpose Microprocessors for Texture Mapping. Ian Romanick. August 2009.
Le système graphique X, Matthieu Herrb, Toulibre seminar, Toulouse, France. May 2009.
r600_demo: Programming the New GPU Generations from AMD, HowTo Render a Freaking Triangle, Matthias Hopf, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium, February 2009.
RandR1.3: New Features in a Nutshell: Transformation, Panning, Properties, Matthias Hopf, FOSDEM, Brussels Belgium, February 2009.
2008
Input handling in wscons and X, Matthieu Herrb, EuroBSDCon, Strasbourg, France, October 2008.
GEM in the Intel driver, Eric Anholt, X Developer's Summit, September 2008, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
X.Org & BSD - Upcoming Plans, Matthieu Herrb, BSDCan, Ottawa, Canada, may 2008.
Nouveau: Cooking an open source driver, Stéphane Marchesin, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium, February 2008.
Redefining input in X, Peter Hutterer, Linux Conference Australia, Melbourne, Vic, Australia, January 2008.
2007
Input overview and plans, Daniel Stone, X Developer's Summit 2007, Clare College, Cambridge UK.
Compiz: The Next Generation Desktop, Matthias Hopf, LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany, Mai 2007.
MPX: MultiPointer X, Peter Hutterer, X.Org Developer's Conference, Menlo Park, United States of America, February 2007.
Xenocara - integrating X.Org and OpenBSD, Matthieu Herrb, FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium, february 2007.
2006
Beyond Eye Candy: An OpenGL-accelerated desktop with Xgl and Compiz, Matthias Hopf, Linux Magazine (US: Linux Pro Magazine), July 2006 (submitted version).
Regurgitate: Using GIT for F/LOSS data collection, Bart Massey and Keith Packard. In Proceedings of the 2006 Workshop on Public Data about Software Development (WoPDaSD 2006), Second International Conference on Open Source Systems, Como, Italy, June 2006.
X and Modesetting: Atrophy illustrated, Luc Verhaegen Presented at FOSDEM 2006 Brussels, Belgium, February 2006.
Open Source, Closed Data: Multi-Level Security in Open Source Desktops. Alan Coopersmith. In Proc 2006 Desktop Developer's Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 2006.
2005
New Evolutions in the X Window System, Matthieu Herrb & Matthias Hopf, EuroBSDCon, Basel, Switzerland, November 2005.
Putative software engineering and the X Window System, Bart Massey. In Proc. 2005 Desktop Developers' Conference, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005.
Bringing X.org's GLX Support Into the Modern Age. Ian Romanick. In Proc. 2005 Desktop Developers' Conference, Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005.
Peeking under the hood: Tools for observing X client/server interactions. Alan Coopersmith. 2005 Desktop Developers' Conference. Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005.
XCB and Xlib, Jamey Sharp. 2005 Desktop Developers' Conference, Ottawa, Canada, July 2005.
Cairo status, Keith Packard, European X Developers' Conference, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2005.
Longitudinal analysis of long-timescale open source repository data, Bart Massey, SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 30(4), 2005.